Having serious trouble installing on Macbook Pro M3 chip

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Hi all,

I am having a very hard time trying to install the Anaconda navigator, I have spent the whole day trying to figure out what I did wrong by searching the documentation but every time I get the same error information:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ERROR REPORT <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "conda/exception_handler.py", line 18, in __call__
  File "conda/cli/main.py", line 67, in main_subshell
  File "conda/base/context.py", line 496, in __init__
  File "conda/common/configuration.py", line 1423, in _set_search_path
  File "boltons/setutils.py", line 125, in __init__
  File "boltons/setutils.py", line 355, in update
  File "conda/common/configuration.py", line 1396, in _expand_search_path
  File "pathlib.py", line 1267, in is_file
  File "pathlib.py", line 1013, in stat
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/tianyanggao/.config/conda/.condarc'

$ /Users/tianyanggao/anaconda3/_conda install --offline --file /Users/tianyanggao/anaconda3/pkgs/env.txt -yp /Users/tianyanggao/anaconda3

I am begging you, please someone could help me. I have been using Anaconda on Windows and Linux for years and never had any issues. This is my first time with Macbook Pro now I just don’t know what to do. Please, please, please help me. Thank you.

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Hi, probably you have solved this error already, but for everyone else encountering this problem, you can try this:

Open terminal:

sudo chown -R tianyanggao:staff ~/.config
sudo chmod -R u+rw ~/.config

You’ll be asked for your user password when you enter this command.

After this - at least in my case - the installation ran without issues (in my case installing Conda via Pinokio)
Best regards
Christian