Change default environment in anaconda

Question

By default, anaconda is using my root environment. However, I'm always using another environment called py34 that I activate manually. Is it possible to change the default environment from root to another one?

Edit: I forgot to mention that I'm working on Windows. On Unix systems adding a line to .bashrc is a solution of course.

Answer 1

You could add the following line to the end of your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile file:

source activate py34

Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with developing on Windows, but this might help? Another possibility is to use an IDE such as pycharm, which I can really recommend for developing python. There, you can change your project settings to your py34 environment.

Answer 2

You can use this link to create a new env - https://stackoverflow.com/a/60820687/11383333

Once your env is created, you can use the answer mentioned by Jayesh to update the activate.bat file -

Let's say the new env name is python39, then the original line in activate.bat looks like this - @CALL "%~dp0..\condabin\conda.bat" activate %*

Update it to this - @CALL "%~dp0..\condabin\conda.bat" activate python38

Save it and restart your anaconda prompt

Answer 3

On Windows:

Search for the Activate.bat file, Usually it is in

"C:\Users\Your_UserName\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Scripts"

Open Activate.bat file in any Text Editor and Append

activate Your_Environment_Name

Save it and after that whenever you will open Anaconda Prompt Your_Environment will get Activated by default instead of base environment.