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Madhu Sareen
Madhu Sareen

Reputation: 549

Anaconda on Ubuntu - Error in permission to update using conda command

On my laptop on windows 8.1 I have vmware and ubuntu 16.4 installed.

I recently installed Anaconda 2.7 (x64) on it. The directory where anaconda is installed, is:

 /home/anaconda2/

When I tried to use the following command to update packages, I got errors as mentioned below:

 conda update --all

Error

 Error: Missing write permissions in: /home/anaconda2

I tried to use sudo and also tried by writing following permission under visudo

madhu ALL=(ALL:ALL)  ALL

Nothing worked....

Can someone please help me?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 7698

Answers (3)

Manoj Kumar
Manoj Kumar

Reputation: 5647

what about this....

 sudo chown -R <username> /home/anaconda2/

Upvotes: 11

HarshaVardhan Vanama
HarshaVardhan Vanama

Reputation: 31

Try the command sudo env "PATH=$PATH" conda.

I faced the same issue when installing OpenCV for Anaconda using the command.

$ conda install opencv

This was fixed when I used the command below:

$ sudo env "PATH=$PATH" conda install opencv

Upvotes: 3

Chirag Godawat
Chirag Godawat

Reputation: 21

If you are trying it in windows, you can correct this error by giving permission rights to user. For that

1.Go to the Anaconda folder located in your OS Drive in Program Files 2.Then click properties 3.Under the security tab, click edit to change permissions 4.Under that select your user and give full control permission to that user. 5.Apply the settings and then reopen comand promt and type 

        >conda install "package name(eg scipy)"

and that's it. Now your package installs

Upvotes: 2

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