Installing Anaconda 4.2 on Windows, cannot find "conda"

Question

After installing the Anaconda 4.2 package, the quickstart guide tells you to verify your installation using "conda list" and "conda info", but I receive an stdin error duplicated below. This error appears in the cmd console, jupyter notebook, and VS 2015 Community. Below is the problem from the cmd console.

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393]
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C:\Users\zalo>python
Python 3.5.2 |Anaconda 4.2.0 (32-bit)| (default, Jul  5 2016, 11:45:57)
[MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> conda info
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    conda info
             ^

Here is the PATH, which appears to be correct.

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Anaconda3
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Anaconda3\Scripts
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Anaconda3\Library\bin

Otherwise, base python seems to be functioning. I've installed and reinstalled Anaconda, Miniconda, 32 and 64-bit versions a dozen times on two different Windows 10 computers. The troubleshooting guide didn't seem to have any steps to take if "conda info" didn't work.

Is there anything else I can try?

Answer 1

conda is primarly used as script so you can't start it (easily) from a python interpreter. Just type it in the command line:

C:\Users\zalo> conda info