Cloning root environment with Anaconda

Question

Going through one of (very few available) tutorials on Anaconda, I tried:

$ conda create -n rootclone --clone root 

This failed:

src_prefix: '/home/bir/conda' dst_prefix: '/home/bir/conda/envs/rootclone' Packages: 49 Files: 471 An unexpected error has occurred, please consider sending the following traceback to the conda GitHub issue tracker at:      https://github.com/conda/conda/issues  Include the output of the command 'conda info' in your report.   Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/home/bir/conda/bin/conda", line 5, in <module>     sys.exit(main())   File "/home/bir/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda/cli/main.py", line 203, in main     args_func(args, p)   File "/home/bir/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda/cli/main.py", line 208, in args_func     args.func(args, p)   File "/home/bir/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda/cli/common.py", line 609, in inner     return func(args, parser)   File "/home/bir/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda/cli/main_create.py", line 50, in execute     install.install(args, parser, 'create')   File "/home/bir/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda/cli/install.py", line 170, in install     clone(args.clone, prefix, json=args.json, quiet=args.quiet)   File "/home/bir/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda/cli/install.py", line 91, in clone     quiet=quiet)   File "/home/bir/conda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda/misc.py", line 177, in clone_env     data = s.encode('utf-8') MemoryError 

And badly. The environment is created:

$ conda info -e # conda environments: # oracle                   /home/bir/conda/envs/oracle oracleclone              /home/bir/conda/envs/oracleclone rootclone                /home/bir/conda/envs/rootclone root                  *  /home/bir/conda 

But it's not working at all:

$ . activate rootclone discarding /home/bir/conda/bin from PATH prepending /home/bir/conda/envs/rootclone/bin to PATH (rootclone)bir@N2C:~/python$ which python /usr/bin/python   # Should be in /home/bir/conda/envs/rootclone/bin 

But is this a true bug, or is conda create -n --clone just not designed for cloning the conda root environment?

Answer 1

Use following command to clone default root environment of Anaconda, the root environment is named as base. This worked for me with Anaconda3-5.0.1

conda create --name <env_name> --clone base