conda init --system alters bash prompt to only display "(base) -bash-5.1#"

[ChrisMoriarty]

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What happened?

I am attempting to install miniconda system wide, for all users. According to the documentation, there is an argument --system that you can pass into the conda init command to initialize conda for all users.

This runs and works successfully, although it seemingly alters the PS1 prompt:

Before: [root@server1 ~]#

After: (base) -bash-5.1#

I'd like to preserve the [user@hostname folder] even after conda is initialized. This was all only tested in bash.

Conda Info

active environment : base
    active env location : /opt/miniforge3
            shell level : 1
       user config file : /root/.condarc
 populated config files : /opt/miniforge3/.condarc
          conda version : 24.3.0
    conda-build version : not installed
         python version : 3.10.14.final.0
                 solver : libmamba (default)
       virtual packages : __archspec=1=haswell
                          __conda=24.3.0=0
                          __glibc=2.34=0
                          __linux=5.14.0=0
                          __unix=0=0
       base environment : /opt/miniforge3  (writable)
      conda av data dir : /opt/miniforge3/etc/conda
  conda av metadata url : None
           channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch
          package cache : /opt/conda/pkgs
       envs directories : /opt/miniforge3/envs
                          /root/.conda/envs
               platform : linux-64
             user-agent : conda/24.3.0 requests/2.31.0 CPython/3.10.14 Linux/5.14.0-362.24.1.el9_3.0.1.x86_64 rocky/9.3 glibc/2.34 solver/libmamba conda-libmamba-solver/24.1.0 libmambapy/1.5.8
                UID:GID : 0:0
             netrc file : None
           offline mode : False

Conda Config

==> /opt/miniforge3/.condarc <==
envs_dirs:
  - /opt/miniforge3/envs
pkgs_dirs:
  - /opt/conda/pkgs
channels:
  - conda-forge

Conda list

# packages in environment at /opt/miniforge3:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
_libgcc_mutex             0.1                 conda_forge    conda-forge
_openmp_mutex             4.5                       2_gnu    conda-forge
archspec                  0.2.3              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
boltons                   24.0.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
brotli-python             1.1.0           py310hc6cd4ac_1    conda-forge
bzip2                     1.0.8                hd590300_5    conda-forge
c-ares                    1.28.1               hd590300_0    conda-forge
ca-certificates           2024.2.2             hbcca054_0    conda-forge
certifi                   2024.2.2           pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
cffi                      1.16.0          py310h2fee648_0    conda-forge
charset-normalizer        3.3.2              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
colorama                  0.4.6              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
conda                     24.3.0          py310hff52083_0    conda-forge
conda-libmamba-solver     24.1.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
conda-package-handling    2.2.0              pyh38be061_0    conda-forge
conda-package-streaming   0.9.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
distro                    1.9.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
fmt                       10.2.1               h00ab1b0_0    conda-forge
icu                       73.2                 h59595ed_0    conda-forge
idna                      3.6                pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jsonpatch                 1.33               pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jsonpointer               2.4             py310hff52083_3    conda-forge
keyutils                  1.6.1                h166bdaf_0    conda-forge
krb5                      1.21.2               h659d440_0    conda-forge
ld_impl_linux-64          2.40                 h41732ed_0    conda-forge
libarchive                3.7.2                h2aa1ff5_1    conda-forge
libcurl                   8.7.1                hca28451_0    conda-forge
libedit                   3.1.20191231         he28a2e2_2    conda-forge
libev                     4.33                 hd590300_2    conda-forge
libffi                    3.4.2                h7f98852_5    conda-forge
libgcc-ng                 13.2.0               h807b86a_5    conda-forge
libgomp                   13.2.0               h807b86a_5    conda-forge
libiconv                  1.17                 hd590300_2    conda-forge
libmamba                  1.5.8                had39da4_0    conda-forge
libmambapy                1.5.8           py310h39ff949_0    conda-forge
libnghttp2                1.58.0               h47da74e_1    conda-forge
libnsl                    2.0.1                hd590300_0    conda-forge
libsolv                   0.7.28               hfc55251_2    conda-forge
libsqlite                 3.45.2               h2797004_0    conda-forge
libssh2                   1.11.0               h0841786_0    conda-forge
libstdcxx-ng              13.2.0               h7e041cc_5    conda-forge
libuuid                   2.38.1               h0b41bf4_0    conda-forge
libxcrypt                 4.4.36               hd590300_1    conda-forge
libxml2                   2.12.6               h232c23b_1    conda-forge
libzlib                   1.2.13               hd590300_5    conda-forge
lz4-c                     1.9.4                hcb278e6_0    conda-forge
lzo                       2.10              h516909a_1000    conda-forge
mamba                     1.5.8           py310h51d5547_0    conda-forge
menuinst                  2.0.2           py310hff52083_0    conda-forge
ncurses                   6.4.20240210         h59595ed_0    conda-forge
openssl                   3.2.1                hd590300_1    conda-forge
packaging                 24.0               pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pip                       24.0               pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
platformdirs              4.2.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pluggy                    1.4.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pybind11-abi              4                    hd8ed1ab_3    conda-forge
pycosat                   0.6.6           py310h2372a71_0    conda-forge
pycparser                 2.22               pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pysocks                   1.7.1              pyha2e5f31_6    conda-forge
python                    3.10.14         hd12c33a_0_cpython    conda-forge
python_abi                3.10                    4_cp310    conda-forge
readline                  8.2                  h8228510_1    conda-forge
reproc                    14.2.4.post0         hd590300_1    conda-forge
reproc-cpp                14.2.4.post0         h59595ed_1    conda-forge
requests                  2.31.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
ruamel.yaml               0.18.6          py310h2372a71_0    conda-forge
ruamel.yaml.clib          0.2.8           py310h2372a71_0    conda-forge
setuptools                69.5.1             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
tk                        8.6.13          noxft_h4845f30_101    conda-forge
tqdm                      4.66.2             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
truststore                0.8.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
tzdata                    2024a                h0c530f3_0    conda-forge
urllib3                   2.2.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
wheel                     0.43.0             pyhd8ed1ab_1    conda-forge
xz                        5.2.6                h166bdaf_0    conda-forge
yaml-cpp                  0.8.0                h59595ed_0    conda-forge
zstandard                 0.22.0          py310h1275a96_0    conda-forge
zstd                      1.5.5                hfc55251_0    conda-forge

Additional Context

I found that by adding changeps1: False to the .condarc file I'm able to restore the prompt to the system default, although I then lose the environment prefix (ex (base)).

Overall, I'm aiming to get the prompt to look like this: (base) [root@server1 ~]#

[ChrisMoriarty]

I found a workaround for now: edit the conda.sh file that gets places in /etc/profile.d folder. I set the PS1 variable before the conda block:

PS1="[\u@\h \W]\$ ";

# >>> conda initialize >>>
# !! Contents within this block are managed by 'conda init' !!
__conda_setup="$('/opt/miniforge3/bin/conda' 'shell.bash' 'hook' 2> /dev/null)"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    eval "$__conda_setup"
else
    if [ -f "/opt/miniforge3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh" ]; then
        . "/opt/miniforge3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh"
    else
        export PATH="/opt/miniforge3/bin:$PATH"
    fi
fi
unset __conda_setup

if [ -f "/opt/miniforge3/etc/profile.d/mamba.sh" ]; then
    . "/opt/miniforge3/etc/profile.d/mamba.sh"
fi
# <<< conda initialize <<<

[travishathaway]

@ChrisMoriarty,

There's a setting you can use for this: changeps1. Just set this to false in your .condarc file and it should not change the prompt.

More information here:

https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/stable/configuration.html

[ChrisMoriarty]

Thanks @travishathaway, but as I noted in the Additional Context section, changeps1 does fix the prompt but I lose the environment prefix. I'm still using the fix I posted above, which initializes the PS1 variable before the "# >>> conda initialize >>>" section.