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G Warner
G Warner

Reputation: 1369

Bad Interpreter Error Trying to Install Packages in Anaconda

I'm trying to install neo into my Anaconda distribution using

conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/neuroinf neo

(taken from here) but am getting the error:

bash: /transform/anaconda/bin/conda: /usr/local/anaconda/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

It's not finding /usr/local/anaconda/bin/python because it doesn't exist. I have anaconda installed in /transform/anaconda/. I've edited my .bashrc file to reflect this but for some reason it's still looking in /usr/local/ (at least in some way, note that it is correctly looking in /transform/ for the first directory argument). What do I need to change to get it to look in /transform/anaconda/bin/python?

echo $PATH returns:

/transform/anaconda/bin:/usr/bin:/transform/anaconda/bin:/usr/bin:/transform/anaconda/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/PHShome/gcw8/bin

(I realize it's messy, I'll clean it up when I get a minute)

I'm running CentOS and python 2.7.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4946

Answers (2)

asmeurer
asmeurer

Reputation: 91450

Did you move your Anaconda installation? This is not supported, for this exact reason.

After modifying the shebang to fix Anaconda you may need to use conda to uninstall and reinstall any other package that has shebang lines or other hard-coded paths to fix them.

Upvotes: 3

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Reputation: 798446

/transform/anaconda/bin/conda expects the Python executable to be in /usr/local/anaconda/bin/python since that is what is in its shebang line, but you've installed it elsewhere, specifically /transform/anaconda/bin/python. You will need to modify the shebang line to point to the correct location.

Upvotes: 2

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