[FIXED] Launching Spyder from Anaconda prompt

Issue

I just installed a fresh version of Anaconda (never installed before). I created a project called snowflakes and activated it from the command line.

Following along with the tutorial "Getting started with Anaconda", it say's that when in a environment you can launch the Spyder IDE (came with Anaconda) by typins spyder. However when I try to do this I get:

Did I miss anything during setup? If so how would I fix this? I have no idea where spyder is installed in case I need to add it to my path variables in Windows.

Solution

Anaconda will help you see the different environments you have configured, their applications and their packages.

Take the following example:

In this case, the working environment is kdb and it has the following applications installed: CMD.exe Prompt, Jupyter Notebook and VS Code.

If you have a variety of environments and you want to launch the Spyder for a specific one, from Anaconda's Prompt, then, assuming that you are using Windows, do a search in the Start Menu for Anaconda Prompt and select the prompt for your specific environment that should have Spyder installed.

In the example above, as Spyder was not installed, I had to install it.

Then, once installed, let's open Anaconda's Prompt for that specific environment:

Once there, you can open Spyder by simply running

spyder

Note that if Spyder is already running, and if you want to open a new instance, please pass to it the --new-instance option.

Answered By - Gonçalo Peres 龚燿禄