conda not initialized by default on Linux install

[PhilipYip1988]

Actual Behavior

The last step of the Anaconda Install on Linux states:

done installation finished. Do you wish the installer to intialize Anaconda3 by running conda init? [yes|no] [no] >>>

If the user presses enter, the default option no is selected (which is a really bad default option). This should not be the default option, as it installs Anaconda leaving it in an unusable state. This can create some confusion for new users who are installing Anaconda for the first time.

Expected Behavior

This stage of the installation should be in an infinite while loop like the license agreement, and break only when the user specifically types in yes or no.

Steps to Reproduce

Begin the Anaconda installation in Linux and press enter when asked Do you wish the installer to intialize Anaconda3. conda commands do not work when in this state so the info is given from an install that has been initialized.

Anaconda or Miniconda version:

Anaconda3-2021.11-Linux-x86_64.sh

Operating System:

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

conda info

``` active environment : base active env location : /home/philip/anaconda3 shell level : 1 user config file : /home/philip/.condarc populated config files : /home/philip/.condarc conda version : 4.12.0 conda-build version : 3.21.8 python version : 3.9.11.final.0 virtual packages : __linux=5.15.0=0 __glibc=2.35=0 __unix=0=0 __archspec=1=x86_64 base environment : /home/philip/anaconda3 (writable) conda av data dir : /home/philip/anaconda3/etc/conda conda av metadata url : None channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/linux-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/linux-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch package cache : /home/philip/anaconda3/pkgs /home/philip/.conda/pkgs envs directories : /home/philip/anaconda3/envs /home/philip/.conda/envs platform : linux-64 user-agent : conda/4.12.0 requests/2.27.1 CPython/3.9.11 Linux/5.15.0-23-generic ubuntu/22.04 glibc/2.35 UID:GID : 1000:1000 netrc file : None offline mode : False ```

conda list --show-channel-urls

``` # packages in environment at /home/philip/anaconda3: # # Name Version Build Channel _anaconda_depends 2021.11 py39_0 defaults _ipyw_jlab_nb_ext_conf 0.1.0 py39h06a4308_0 defaults _libgcc_mutex 0.1 main defaults _openmp_mutex 4.5 1_gnu defaults alabaster 0.7.12 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults anaconda custom py39_1 defaults anaconda-client 1.9.0 py39h06a4308_0 defaults anaconda-navigator 2.1.2 py39h06a4308_0 defaults anaconda-project 0.10.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults anyio 3.5.0 py39h06a4308_0 defaults appdirs 1.4.4 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults argh 0.26.2 py39h06a4308_0 defaults argon2-cffi 21.3.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults argon2-cffi-bindings 21.2.0 py39h7f8727e_0 defaults arrow 0.13.1 py39h06a4308_0 defaults asn1crypto 1.4.0 py_0 defaults astroid 2.6.6 py39h06a4308_0 defaults astropy 5.0.3 py39hce1f21e_0 defaults asttokens 2.0.5 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults async_generator 1.10 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults atomicwrites 1.4.0 py_0 defaults attrs 21.4.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults autopep8 1.6.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults babel 2.9.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults backcall 0.2.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults backports 1.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults backports.functools_lru_cache 1.6.4 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults backports.shutil_get_terminal_size 1.0.0 pyhd3eb1b0_3 defaults backports.tempfile 1.0 pyhd3eb1b0_1 defaults backports.weakref 1.0.post1 py_1 defaults beautifulsoup4 4.10.0 pyh06a4308_0 defaults binaryornot 0.4.4 pyhd3eb1b0_1 defaults bitarray 2.4.1 py39h7f8727e_0 defaults bkcharts 0.2 py39h06a4308_0 defaults black 19.10b0 py_0 defaults blas 1.0 mkl defaults bleach 4.1.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults blosc 1.21.0 h8c45485_0 defaults bokeh 2.4.2 py39h06a4308_0 defaults boto 2.49.0 py39h06a4308_0 defaults bottleneck 1.3.4 py39hce1f21e_0 defaults brotli 1.0.9 he6710b0_2 defaults brotlipy 0.7.0 py39h27cfd23_1003 defaults brunsli 0.1 h2531618_0 defaults bzip2 1.0.8 h7b6447c_0 defaults c-ares 1.18.1 h7f8727e_0 defaults ca-certificates 2022.3.29 h06a4308_0 defaults cached-property 1.5.2 py_0 defaults cairo 1.16.0 hf32fb01_1 defaults certifi 2021.10.8 py39h06a4308_2 defaults cffi 1.15.0 py39hd667e15_1 defaults cfitsio 3.470 hf0d0db6_6 defaults chardet 4.0.0 py39h06a4308_1003 defaults charls 2.2.0 h2531618_0 defaults charset-normalizer 2.0.4 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults click 8.0.4 py39h06a4308_0 defaults cloudpickle 2.0.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults clyent 1.2.2 py39h06a4308_1 defaults colorama 0.4.4 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults conda 4.12.0 py39h06a4308_0 defaults conda-build 3.21.8 py39h06a4308_2 defaults conda-content-trust 0.1.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults conda-env 2.6.0 1 defaults conda-pack 0.6.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults conda-package-handling 1.8.1 py39h7f8727e_0 defaults conda-repo-cli 1.0.4 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults conda-token 0.3.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults conda-verify 3.4.2 py_1 defaults contextlib2 0.6.0.post1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults cookiecutter 1.7.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults cryptography 3.4.8 py39hd23ed53_0 defaults curl 7.80.0 h7f8727e_0 defaults cycler 0.11.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults cython 0.29.28 py39h295c915_0 defaults cytoolz 0.11.0 py39h27cfd23_0 defaults daal4py 2021.5.0 py39h78b71dc_0 defaults dal 2021.5.1 h06a4308_803 defaults dask 2022.2.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults dask-core 2022.2.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults dataclasses 0.8 pyh6d0b6a4_7 defaults dbus 1.13.18 hb2f20db_0 defaults debugpy 1.5.1 py39h295c915_0 defaults decorator 5.1.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults defusedxml 0.7.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults diff-match-patch 20200713 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults distributed 2022.2.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults docutils 0.17.1 py39h06a4308_1 defaults entrypoints 0.3 py39h06a4308_0 defaults et_xmlfile 1.1.0 py39h06a4308_0 defaults executing 0.8.3 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults expat 2.4.4 h295c915_0 defaults fastcache 1.1.0 py39he8ac12f_0 defaults filelock 3.6.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults flake8 3.9.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults flask 1.1.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults fontconfig 2.13.1 h6c09931_0 defaults fonttools 4.25.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults freetype 2.11.0 h70c0345_0 defaults fribidi 1.0.10 h7b6447c_0 defaults fsspec 2022.2.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults future 0.18.2 py39h06a4308_1 defaults get_terminal_size 1.0.0 haa9412d_0 defaults gevent 21.8.0 py39h7f8727e_1 defaults giflib 5.2.1 h7b6447c_0 defaults glib 2.69.1 h4ff587b_1 defaults glob2 0.7 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults gmp 6.2.1 h2531618_2 defaults gmpy2 2.1.2 py39heeb90bb_0 defaults graphite2 1.3.14 h23475e2_0 defaults greenlet 1.1.1 py39h295c915_0 defaults gst-plugins-base 1.14.0 h8213a91_2 defaults gstreamer 1.14.0 h28cd5cc_2 defaults h5py 3.6.0 py39ha0f2276_0 defaults harfbuzz 2.8.1 h6f93f22_0 defaults hdf5 1.10.6 hb1b8bf9_0 defaults heapdict 1.0.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults html5lib 1.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults icu 58.2 he6710b0_3 defaults idna 3.3 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults imagecodecs 2021.8.26 py39h4cda21f_0 defaults imageio 2.9.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults imagesize 1.3.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults importlib-metadata 4.11.3 py39h06a4308_0 defaults importlib_metadata 4.11.3 hd3eb1b0_0 defaults inflection 0.5.1 py39h06a4308_0 defaults iniconfig 1.1.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults intel-openmp 2021.4.0 h06a4308_3561 defaults intervaltree 3.1.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults ipykernel 6.9.1 py39h06a4308_0 defaults ipython 8.2.0 py39h06a4308_0 defaults ipython_genutils 0.2.0 pyhd3eb1b0_1 defaults ipywidgets 7.6.5 pyhd3eb1b0_1 defaults isort 5.9.3 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults itsdangerous 2.0.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults jbig 2.1 hdba287a_0 defaults jdcal 1.4.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults jedi 0.18.1 py39h06a4308_1 defaults jeepney 0.7.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults jinja2 2.11.3 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults jinja2-time 0.2.0 pyhd3eb1b0_2 defaults joblib 1.1.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults jpeg 9d h7f8727e_0 defaults json5 0.9.6 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults jsonschema 3.2.0 pyhd3eb1b0_2 defaults jupyter 1.0.0 py39h06a4308_7 defaults jupyter_client 6.1.12 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults jupyter_console 6.4.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults jupyter_core 4.9.2 py39h06a4308_0 defaults jupyter_server 1.13.5 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults jupyterlab 3.3.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults jupyterlab_pygments 0.1.2 py_0 defaults jupyterlab_server 2.10.3 pyhd3eb1b0_1 defaults jupyterlab_widgets 1.0.0 pyhd3eb1b0_1 defaults jxrlib 1.1 h7b6447c_2 defaults keyring 23.4.0 py39h06a4308_0 defaults kiwisolver 1.3.2 py39h295c915_0 defaults krb5 1.19.2 hac12032_0 defaults lazy-object-proxy 1.6.0 py39h27cfd23_0 defaults lcms2 2.12 h3be6417_0 defaults ld_impl_linux-64 2.35.1 h7274673_9 defaults lerc 3.0 h295c915_0 defaults libaec 1.0.4 he6710b0_1 defaults libarchive 3.4.2 h62408e4_0 defaults libcurl 7.80.0 h0b77cf5_0 defaults libdeflate 1.8 h7f8727e_5 defaults libedit 3.1.20210910 h7f8727e_0 defaults libev 4.33 h7f8727e_1 defaults libffi 3.3 he6710b0_2 defaults libgcc-ng 9.3.0 h5101ec6_17 defaults libgfortran-ng 7.5.0 ha8ba4b0_17 defaults libgfortran4 7.5.0 ha8ba4b0_17 defaults libgomp 9.3.0 h5101ec6_17 defaults liblief 0.11.5 h295c915_1 defaults libllvm11 11.1.0 h3826bc1_1 defaults libnghttp2 1.46.0 hce63b2e_0 defaults libpng 1.6.37 hbc83047_0 defaults libsodium 1.0.18 h7b6447c_0 defaults libspatialindex 1.9.3 h2531618_0 defaults libssh2 1.9.0 h1ba5d50_1 defaults libstdcxx-ng 9.3.0 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8.12.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults mpc 1.1.0 h10f8cd9_1 defaults mpfr 4.0.2 hb69a4c5_1 defaults mpi 1.0 mpich defaults mpich 3.3.2 hc856adb_0 defaults mpmath 1.2.1 py39h06a4308_0 defaults msgpack-python 1.0.2 py39hff7bd54_1 defaults multipledispatch 0.6.0 py39h06a4308_0 defaults munkres 1.1.4 py_0 defaults mypy_extensions 0.4.3 py39h06a4308_1 defaults navigator-updater 0.2.1 py39_1 defaults nbclassic 0.3.5 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults nbclient 0.5.11 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults nbconvert 6.3.0 py39h06a4308_0 defaults nbformat 5.1.3 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults ncurses 6.3 h7f8727e_2 defaults nest-asyncio 1.5.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults networkx 2.7.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults nltk 3.7 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults nose 1.3.7 pyhd3eb1b0_1008 defaults notebook 6.4.8 py39h06a4308_0 defaults numba 0.55.1 py39h51133e4_0 defaults numexpr 2.8.1 py39h6abb31d_0 defaults numpy 1.21.2 py39h20f2e39_0 defaults numpy-base 1.21.2 py39h79a1101_0 defaults numpydoc 1.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults olefile 0.46 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults openjpeg 2.4.0 h3ad879b_0 defaults openpyxl 3.0.9 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults openssl 1.1.1n h7f8727e_0 defaults packaging 21.3 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults pandas 1.4.1 py39h295c915_1 defaults pandocfilters 1.5.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults pango 1.45.3 hd140c19_0 defaults parso 0.8.3 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults partd 1.2.0 pyhd3eb1b0_1 defaults patchelf 0.13 h295c915_0 defaults path 16.2.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults path.py 12.5.0 hd3eb1b0_0 defaults pathlib2 2.3.6 py39h06a4308_2 defaults pathspec 0.7.0 py_0 defaults patsy 0.5.2 py39h06a4308_1 defaults pcre 8.45 h295c915_0 defaults pep8 1.7.1 py39h06a4308_0 defaults pexpect 4.8.0 pyhd3eb1b0_3 defaults pickleshare 0.7.5 pyhd3eb1b0_1003 defaults pillow 9.0.1 py39h22f2fdc_0 defaults pip 21.2.4 py39h06a4308_0 defaults pixman 0.40.0 h7f8727e_1 defaults pkginfo 1.8.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults pluggy 1.0.0 py39h06a4308_1 defaults ply 3.11 py39h06a4308_0 defaults poyo 0.5.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults prometheus_client 0.13.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults prompt-toolkit 3.0.20 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults prompt_toolkit 3.0.20 hd3eb1b0_0 defaults psutil 5.8.0 py39h27cfd23_1 defaults ptyprocess 0.7.0 pyhd3eb1b0_2 defaults pure_eval 0.2.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults py 1.11.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults py-lief 0.11.5 py39h295c915_1 defaults pycodestyle 2.7.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults pycosat 0.6.3 py39h27cfd23_0 defaults pycparser 2.21 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults pycurl 7.44.1 py39h8f2d780_1 defaults pydocstyle 6.1.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults pyerfa 2.0.0 py39h27cfd23_0 defaults pyflakes 2.3.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults pygments 2.11.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults pyjwt 2.1.0 py39h06a4308_0 defaults pylint 2.9.6 py39h06a4308_1 defaults pyls-spyder 0.4.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults pyodbc 4.0.32 py39h295c915_1 defaults pyopenssl 21.0.0 pyhd3eb1b0_1 defaults pyparsing 3.0.4 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults pyqt 5.9.2 py39h2531618_6 defaults pyrsistent 0.18.0 py39heee7806_0 defaults pysocks 1.7.1 py39h06a4308_0 defaults pytables 3.6.1 py39h77479fe_1 defaults pytest 6.2.5 py39h06a4308_2 defaults python 3.9.11 h12debd9_2 defaults python-dateutil 2.8.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults python-libarchive-c 2.9 pyhd3eb1b0_1 defaults python-lsp-black 1.0.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults python-lsp-jsonrpc 1.0.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults python-lsp-server 1.2.4 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults python-slugify 5.0.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults pytz 2021.3 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults pywavelets 1.3.0 py39h7f8727e_0 defaults pyxdg 0.27 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults pyyaml 6.0 py39h7f8727e_1 defaults pyzmq 22.3.0 py39h295c915_2 defaults qdarkstyle 3.0.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults qstylizer 0.1.10 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults qt 5.9.7 h5867ecd_1 defaults qtawesome 1.0.3 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults qtconsole 5.3.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults qtpy 2.0.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults readline 8.1.2 h7f8727e_1 defaults regex 2022.3.15 py39h7f8727e_0 defaults requests 2.27.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults ripgrep 12.1.1 0 defaults rope 0.22.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults rtree 0.9.7 py39h06a4308_1 defaults ruamel_yaml 0.15.100 py39h27cfd23_0 defaults scikit-image 0.19.2 py39h51133e4_0 defaults scikit-learn 1.0.2 py39h51133e4_1 defaults scikit-learn-intelex 2021.5.0 py39h06a4308_0 defaults scipy 1.7.3 py39hc147768_0 defaults seaborn 0.11.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults secretstorage 3.3.1 py39h06a4308_0 defaults send2trash 1.8.0 pyhd3eb1b0_1 defaults setuptools 58.0.4 py39h06a4308_0 defaults simplegeneric 0.8.1 py39h06a4308_2 defaults singledispatch 3.7.0 pyhd3eb1b0_1001 defaults sip 4.19.13 py39h295c915_0 defaults six 1.16.0 pyhd3eb1b0_1 defaults snappy 1.1.8 he6710b0_0 defaults sniffio 1.2.0 py39h06a4308_1 defaults snowballstemmer 2.2.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults sortedcollections 2.1.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults sortedcontainers 2.4.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults soupsieve 2.3.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults sphinx 4.4.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults sphinxcontrib 1.0 py39h06a4308_1 defaults sphinxcontrib-applehelp 1.0.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults sphinxcontrib-devhelp 1.0.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp 2.0.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults sphinxcontrib-jsmath 1.0.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults sphinxcontrib-qthelp 1.0.3 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml 1.1.5 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults sphinxcontrib-websupport 1.2.4 py_0 defaults spyder 5.1.5 py39h06a4308_1 defaults spyder-kernels 2.1.3 py39h06a4308_0 defaults sqlalchemy 1.4.32 py39h7f8727e_0 defaults sqlite 3.38.2 hc218d9a_0 defaults stack_data 0.2.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults statsmodels 0.13.2 py39h7f8727e_0 defaults sympy 1.10.1 py39h06a4308_0 defaults tbb 2021.5.0 hd09550d_0 defaults tbb4py 2021.5.0 py39hd09550d_0 defaults tblib 1.7.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults terminado 0.13.1 py39h06a4308_0 defaults testpath 0.5.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults text-unidecode 1.3 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults textdistance 4.2.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults threadpoolctl 2.2.0 pyh0d69192_0 defaults three-merge 0.1.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults tifffile 2021.7.2 pyhd3eb1b0_2 defaults tinycss 0.4 pyhd3eb1b0_1002 defaults tk 8.6.11 h1ccaba5_0 defaults toml 0.10.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults toolz 0.11.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults tornado 6.1 py39h27cfd23_0 defaults tqdm 4.63.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults traitlets 5.1.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults typed-ast 1.4.3 py39h7f8727e_1 defaults typing-extensions 4.1.1 hd3eb1b0_0 defaults typing_extensions 4.1.1 pyh06a4308_0 defaults tzdata 2022a hda174b7_0 defaults ujson 5.1.0 py39h295c915_0 defaults unicodecsv 0.14.1 py39h06a4308_0 defaults unidecode 1.2.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults unixodbc 2.3.9 h7b6447c_0 defaults urllib3 1.26.8 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults watchdog 2.1.6 py39h06a4308_0 defaults wcwidth 0.2.5 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults webencodings 0.5.1 py39h06a4308_1 defaults websocket-client 0.58.0 py39h06a4308_4 defaults werkzeug 2.0.3 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults wheel 0.37.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults whichcraft 0.6.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults widgetsnbextension 3.5.2 py39h06a4308_0 defaults wrapt 1.12.1 py39he8ac12f_1 defaults wurlitzer 3.0.2 py39h06a4308_0 defaults xlrd 2.0.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults xlsxwriter 3.0.3 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults xlwt 1.3.0 py39h06a4308_0 defaults xz 5.2.5 h7b6447c_0 defaults yaml 0.2.5 h7b6447c_0 defaults yapf 0.31.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults zeromq 4.3.4 h2531618_0 defaults zfp 0.5.5 h295c915_6 defaults zict 2.0.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults zipp 3.7.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults zlib 1.2.11 h7f8727e_4 defaults zope 1.0 py39h06a4308_1 defaults zope.event 4.5.0 py39h06a4308_0 defaults zope.interface 5.4.0 py39h7f8727e_0 defaults zstd 1.4.9 haebb681_0 defaults ```

[OneOfMany07]

I assume they have a reason for the default. It might pay to look up "conda init" and see when they suggest people use it in their documentation.

But I agree, my expectation would be to default to "yes" so most users would get a typical, functional installation without trying too hard (hitting enter after triggering install). This is a total outsider and new user perspective, not knowing what each state is useful for.

Also I'd assume those URL's at the top of the bug template are to help you, and don't add to the bug if you file it here. I'd remove them to make your bug easier to parse, but that's me.

[PhilipYip1988]

Thanks, I have removed the template URLs.

Yes I posted this in the mindset of a "total new user perspective" i.e. a new user installing Anaconda on Linux and then being unable to use it because it isn't initialised by default. I made a YouTube video and written guide documenting the installation and got comments by other users that they had made the same mistake when they first tried to install Anaconda. i.e. installing it but pressing enter and resulting in it being installed and not initialised.

It can be fixed by manually editing the .bashrc:

cd ~
nano .bashrc

The following should be included:

# >>> conda initialize >>>
# !! Contents within this block are managed by 'conda init' !!
__conda_setup="$('/home/philip/anaconda3/bin/conda' 'shell.bash' 'hook' 2> /dev/null)"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    eval "$__conda_setup"
else
    if [ -f "/home/philip/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh" ]; then
        . "/home/philip/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh"
    else
        export PATH="/home/philip/anaconda3/bin:$PATH"
    fi
fi
unset __conda_setup
# <<< conda initialize <<<

Replacing my username philip with whatever your username is (4 times).

However from a new user perspective who is just getting started with Python, it is an unnecessary hurdle when it comes to installation. Therefore I submitted this as a bug, so hopefully it can be addressed.

[m-schindler]

The above proposition, namely to add a PATH-changing snippet into .bashrc is totally the wrong way to solve this little problem. The installation of an individual software package, which anaconda is, should never tinker with the global configuration of any user. I had to struggle with this behaviour myself, on a multi-user system: The admin installed anaconda, had his .bashrc changed, and that had negative implications on the rest of the system: The changed PATH took incompatible binaries from anaconda instead of taking it from the system.

Moreover, it had not the wanted effect for any other user on the system.

Here is how it should be done: Make anaconda a bash script, change PATH locally inside the script, and launch the binary inside the script. If done this way, there are no unwanted side-effects to the rest of the system, and it works for all users.

Edit: I forgot to mention that other users of anaconda had problems with this PATH-changing snippet. See these bug reports: https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/9138 https://github.com/phw/peek/issues/304#issuecomment-380164779