VSCode conda activate base giving CommandNotFoundError

Question

I have Anaconda and Visual Studio Code installed on my computer. My default terminal for VS Code is Git Bash. When I open a new terminal in VSCode, it immediately runs the following commands:

C:/Users/ethan/AppData/Local/Continuum/anaconda3/Scripts/activate
conda activate base

The second of these commands gives the following error:

CommandNotFoundError: Your shell has not been properly configured to use 'conda activate'.
If using 'conda activate' from a batch script, change your
invocation to 'CALL conda.bat activate'.

I have tried running conda init bash and conda init --all both inside the VSCode terminal, and inside Git Bash. It handles that command fine, but it doesn't solve my problem. I don't know if the second line of the error applies to me, but even if it did, I don't know how to change the command being called because it is done automatically by VSCode. This error occurs every time I launch a terminal in VSCode (even if I don't have any python files present in my workspace), and it happens both when I launch VSCode from the launch button in Anaconda Navigator and when I launch VSCode by itself.

Answer 1

I had the same issue. For me, easily resolved by launching VSC from the conda window.

Specifically, open your cmd prompt (for me, Anaconda Prompt), activate the environment using 'conda activate [envname]'. Then just run the command 'code'. This will launch VS Code with the activated environment and associated variables. From there, the debug works as expected.

Answer 2

I had the same issue, I've fixed it by adding the Python.CondaPath in settings. Press Ctrl + Shift + P and select Terminal Configuration. Search for python.conda, and paste your conda path for example. C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts\conda.exe

This will fix your issue.

Answer 3

In VS code settings, search for "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows", then click "Edit in settings.json". For me, this opened "%APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json". I set "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": "-i -l" and this fixed it for me. My file:

{
    "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe",
    "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": "-i -l"
}