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Daniele Ottolina
Daniele Ottolina

Reputation: 1

Canopy doesn't start after seamless installation

I read almost every post on the subject on the forum, but I was not able to fix this annoying problem. I've a fresh Canopy 2.1.3 installation on Fedora 26. Nothing happens whether I try to execute it via GUI or command line ('canopy' is not recognized even as a command!).

I'm clueless, I suppose the issue may be with the environmental variables PYTHONPATH and PYTHONHOME (Fedora ships with its own Python distribution by RedHat), but I have not been able to fix the problem in the past two hours. Here is the reference from Enthought itself I'm referring to.

What puzzles me is that in the previous Fedora releases I did not experience such problems at all when executing Canopy for the first time.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 73

Answers (1)

Jonathan March
Jonathan March

Reputation: 5810

a) The article that you reference is Windows-specific, but certainly on any OS, PYTHONPATH and PYTHONHOME should never be be pointing to any Python distribution. See this article.

b) If the canopy command is literally not recognized (vs being recognized but not starting as expected), then that at least is probably a generic "how do I start an executable?" issue, with typical answers being "Put its path in your PATH environment variable" or "reference the executable directly by its full path".

Upvotes: 0

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