you people don’t make this stuff easy for beginners at all, I’ve been trying to install this program for over an hour now as it’s required for my class and its basically impossible, never in my life have I had troubles trying to install something and I see loads of other people have been having similar issues as well. why would you make something so hard to install? it’s almost as if you people don’t even want anyone to use your product in the first place.
Hello Cameron
Thank you for reaching out. Apologies for the frustration caused by the error issues with the installer.
To resolve this issue, please open your Terminal on the Mac menu and launch these commands one by one:
# You can find your Mac Terminal by using Launchpad search or Spotlight search
mkdir /Users/$USER/.config/
mkdir /Users/$USER/.config/fish/
touch /Users/$USER/ .bash_profile .tcshrc .xonshrc .zshrc
touch /Users/$USER/.config/fish/config.fish
sudo chown -R $USER ~/.bash_profile ~/.config/fish/config.fish ~/.tcshrc ~/.xonshrc ~/.zshrc
Then proceed with the installation regardless of the output results.
Then you should be able to install Anaconda after a reboot, please let us know if that worked for you.
If you are still having issues with the installer please let us know and also provide us with your processor chip information on your Mac.
- Check macOS Version: Click Apple logo → “About This Mac” → Note the macOS version and chip type (M1/M2 or Intel)
I have done this and nothing happens still. This product is so frustrating. I have Mac OS Monterey 12.7.6 with a 2.5 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7. When I try to install it now it also tells me ‘/opt/anaconda3’ already exists. So I tried to even create a new folder on the desktop and do it that way changing where it was installed. It then told me it had a space in it or something stupid and wouldnt continue. I dont even think that this software even works at all with all the errors you guys have. you would think for computer coding all of the things anaconda says it does and python supposedly is the easiest language to learn things would be a little more efficient.
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Hello George,
The ‘/opt/anaconda3’ error message that occurs when this file path exists and the installer can’t continue with the installation.
When you install anaconda, we don’t have a method to uninstall the previous installation attempts if they fail so we need to manually remove them.
We can manually remove the file path with the Terminal commands below:
# The following are a few examples of how you may need to delete your Anaconda folder
sudo rm -rf anaconda3
sudo rm -rf ~/anaconda3
sudo rm -rf ~/opt/anaconda3
sudo rm -rf /opt/anaconda3
Once this file path has been removed, please try to install Anaconda again with the intel core processor installer provided in the link below:
https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2024.10-1-MacOSX-x86_64.pkg
Let us know if you have any issues with installing Anaconda after removing the file path.