conda command not found. The .profile and "echo $PATH" seem however okay

Question

I've blindly installed numerous times Python, admittedly without fully knowing what I was installing and where. I figured that now before I encounter even more problems that I need to tidy up my environment a bit. In Terminal, I used the command which -a python and came up with this:

/opt/local/bin/python
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python
~/anaconda/bin/python
/opt/local/bin/python
/opt/local/bin/python
/opt/local/bin/python
/usr/bin/python

My .profile has:

export PATH="/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH"
export PATH="/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/lib/gmt4/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="~/teqc:$PATH"
export PATH="/usr/local/runpkr000:$PATH"
# Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.
##
# Your previous ~/.profile file was backed up as ~/.profile.macports-saved_2015-04-02_at_16:40:23
##
# MacPorts Installer addition on 2015-04-02_at_16:40:23: adding an appropriate
PATH variable for use with MacPorts.
export PATH="/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH"
# Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.
# added by Anaconda 2.3.0 installer
export PATH="~/anaconda/bin:$PATH"

And echo $PATH gives:

~/anaconda/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/runpkr000:~/teqc:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/lib/gmt4/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:~/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/texbin

I can't seem to locate where the problem is. I have been using pandas, numpy, matplotlib, scipy on my MBP for over a year and all seem to work fine (actually, the import pandas is always highlighted as red, but it works anyway). I've used Macports and Anacondas to install (as can be seen from the which -a python, it seems), and only just realised that only one of them was necessary to use. I'm a bit confused as to how to configure .profile and generally would like to tidy up this mess. My aim would be to then use conda to install another library (in this case obspy).

Answer 1

Hi instead of reinstalling everything you may add a symlink to conda (assuming everything is fine in your .profile or .bash_profile). I did the following and worked for me:

ln -s "Applications/anaconda/bin/conda" /usr/local/bin/conda 

Hope this helps
P.S. worked on OSX

Answer 2

I followed the suggestion at the link Where basically he has told to install anaconda using .sh variant instead of .pkg and it worked for me.