Can't install anaconda on Ubuntu 20.04. ~/anaconda3 folder is not created?

Question

I downloaded the installer from here:

https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual/download-success

I then go to my downloads folder and run

sudo bash Anaconda3-2021.05-Linux-x86_64.sh

I scroll through the license and try to install at the default /root/anaconda3 without changing anything. It seems to go OK. It asks if I want to do conda init, I say yes, and this is the result:

no change     /root/anaconda3/condabin/conda
no change     /root/anaconda3/bin/conda
no change     /root/anaconda3/bin/conda-env
no change     /root/anaconda3/bin/activate
no change     /root/anaconda3/bin/deactivate
no change     /root/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh
no change     /root/anaconda3/etc/fish/conf.d/conda.fish
no change     /root/anaconda3/shell/condabin/Conda.psm1
no change     /root/anaconda3/shell/condabin/conda-hook.ps1
no change     /root/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/xontrib/conda.xsh
no change     /root/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.csh
modified      /root/.bashrc

However as far as I can tell .bashrc is not actually changed at all. There is no mention of conda or anaconda anywhere. Also, the ~/anaconda3 folder does not exist, so if I do any conda commands in terminal, it obviously fails ( conda: command not found). By using sudo -i and going to /root/ I can see that /root/anaconda3 exists but from what I understand, these are binaries and not where your conda path should go to, right? There is a /root/anaconda3/bin/conda executable if I put something like

export PATH=~/anaconda3/bin:"$PATH"

or

export PATH=/root/anaconda/bin:"$PATH"

I still get nada when I try to run a conda command, command is still not found. (And yes I source the .bashrc or open a new terminal window).

I also tried installing anaconda to other places like ~/temp/anaconda3 just to see what happened. The installer didn't make anything there either.

I'm a bit lost here, what can I do?

Answer 1

You should not install as root... I would undo the installation by removing /root/anaconda3 and removing the conda part of /root/.bashrc. Then install anaconda with bash Anaconda3-2021.05-Linux-x86_64.sh (not as root).

-- comment by jakub