How to install Anaconda using ArcGIS Pro 2.1?

[RyanTucker2]

How to install Anaconda using ArcGIS Pro 2.1? Is this possible? I see it listed in the python package manager. Yet every time I try to install it ,it doesn't seem to work. It starts to install then 2 minutes later it refreshes and hasn't installed.I have full admin rights. Not quite understanding why it fails to install.

[DanPatterson_Retired · Accepted solution]

I wouldn't go installing anything just yet.  Your whole installation of Pro is in an Anaconda package .

For example... I have Pro installed in this path

C:\ArcGISPro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3‍

yours in installed in the path before the \bin.... folder.

The \envs... folder probably only contains one folder (ie ArcGISpro-py3)

You can use conda to install variations of the distribution if you want to, but I recommend not messing with your Arc* machine.

The packages can be installed within the package manager within Pro or you can do it via conda.

I have a couple of blogs on installing other packages (ie Spyder, Jupyter Console, Jupyter Notebook etc) if you are looking to do other package installs.

Good luck

[DanPatterson_Retired]

Python Package Manager ... from the help, for further info

[AmyKlug]

I'm trying to get a general idea of how to use conda in Pro to be able to run a 2.7 environment. Do I create a new environment in Pro and set it up with the 2.7 library package? 

[DanPatterson_Retired]

you could, but I wouldn't.  Python 3 can be used as a substitute for 2.7 for most python things and all arcpy thing.

[AmyKlug]

Thanks Dan, We need to use older scripts. 

Sounds like you are saying that workflow is possible. Unfortunately creating a new environment in pro and trying to load it isn't working for me. creating a new environment "failed" 

[RyanTucker2]

Thank you, Dan.

I ended up installing the Spyder IDE package and it works fine.