Closed Alexander-Barth closed 1 year ago
See also https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/8662 … and also https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/716 for spaces in the path.
Yes, it seems feasible to print out a more friendly error message in Conda.install
for paths that Anaconda doesn't like, just by checking isascii(path) && ' ' ∉ path
.
I am trying to help two students who failed to install Conda.jl. A manual miniconda installation to the directory
c:\users\<username>\.julia\conda\3\
also failed. We see the following error in the miniconda installation log:Both students have a French accent in their username which seems to be an issue for conda (at least anaconda):
Could
Conda.jl
detect this issue and propose a work-around to the users? I cannot replicate the issue locally, but after reading build.jl it seems that settingENV["CONDA_JL_HOME"]
might be sufficient.See also https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/10239