Cannot install Anaconda - Mac Air M1

[patran]

I am using Mac Air M1. I uninstalled Anaconda a few years ago. Now I need to install again. But there is nan error message - Chosen path already exists ‘/opt/anaconda3’ , (please relaunch the installer and choose another location in the Destination Select step.

I think that means the old path/folder is still there so the new Anaconda cannot be installed. So I also attach the screenshot of my file/folders under user, and I see many “anaconda” related folders. So what should I do now? Please advise?

[Carlos_Valin]

@patran

I think that means the old path/folder is still there so the new Anaconda cannot be installed. So I also attach the screenshot of my file/folders under user, and I see many “anaconda” related folders. So what should I do now? Please advise?

Please try to uninstall Anaconda and install it again.

I’m going to leave you the installer here for your platform so that you can install it:

https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2024.02-1-MacOSX-arm64.pkg

There is the x86 installer as well:

https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2024.02-1-MacOSX-x86_64.pkg

It’s also advisable to completely uninstall Anaconda before proceeding with the installation to make sure to get rid of any errors, you can do that if you follow these instructions:

macOS or Linux

1. Open your terminal application.
2. Remove your entire Anaconda directory with rm -rf. Depending on your installation, your anaconda2 or anaconda3 directory will be in your root folder or in your opt folder.

The following are a few examples of how you may need to delete your Anaconda folder

sudo su

rm -rf anaconda3

rm -rf ~/anaconda3

rm -rf ~/opt/anaconda3

rm -rf /opt/anaconda3

1. Close and reopen your terminal to refresh it. You should no longer see (base) in your terminal prompt.

If you want here is a detailed explanation:

https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/uninstall/

Please let us know if that fixed your problem, we are eager to help you.

[patran]

Thanks Carlos, I tried

rm -rf anaconda3

rm -rf ~/anaconda3

rm -rf ~/opt/anaconda3

rm -rf /opt/anaconda3

but the last one shows "permission denied.

why is that the case? see if you some insight on that

[Carlos_Valin]

Hi again,

Please run it with sudo, It will ask for your user password afterwards:

sudo rm -rf /opt/anaconda3

[nicholasschwab]

Thanks Carlos, this helped me

[aazsiraj]

Thank you so much. It worked.

[priyab2010]

I tried following this as I had the same issue, but it gave me this output:

[steve]

Looks like you may be missing a space between -rf and /opt/anaconda3 on that last command. It should be sudo rm -rf /opt/anaconda3

[seinlinn.private]

Thanks Carlos, it worked