Change Anaconda Interpreter

My system has a set-up python environment (2.7) to work with certain programs, and I also want to install Miniconda3 for Python 3.6.

When I call python in terminal, it will start the system python from /usr/bin/python. To achieve this, I removed the python symbolic link in ~/miniconda/bin/.

Now, when I execute conda in terminal, it gives me the following error,

-bash: /home/me/miniconda/bin/conda: /home/me/miniconda/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I understand that this is because I remove the anaconda python symbolic link. But is there a way to hack anaconda to use ~/miniconda/bin/python3 as its python interpreter?

Answer

Solution

I don’t have to delete python symbolic link in ~/miniconda/bin/, and instead, in the ~/.bashrc file, I need to change my conda path to

export PATH=$PATH:/home/me/miniconda/bin

After doing this, when I call python, it’s actually executing the python program in /usr/bin/. conda command will execute ~/miniconda/bin/conda program.