Anaconda install on Windows is stuck on executing install.py - python-3.x

Update: Two months after posting this question, I switched to a fresh install of Windows 10 and was able to install the correct version of Anaconda Python. Unfortunately the answers came too late for me to test them.
I want to switch from the 32-bit version of Anaconda Python 3.5 to the 64-bit version. First I uninstalled Anaconda through the 'Programs and Features' window, then I downloaded the Anaconda3-4.2.0-Windows-x86_64.exe installer and attempted to run it. For reference, I am using the 64-bit version of Windows 7. After some initial processing the installer is stuck on Execute: "C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\pythonw.exe" -E -s "C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\pkgs\.install.py" --root-prefix "C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3" --post root
It does not throw any errors, it just hangs. I let it run throughout the night to see if it would progress any further, but unfortunately it was still stuck in the same place in the morning. Afterwards I tried looking for hidden Continuum files from the previous installation and removed those - also removed Anaconda from my PATH variable. I even tried installing miniconda instead of anaconda, but both installers get stuck in the exact same place. Am I missing a hidden file somewhere which is causing the Anaconda installer to hang?
Below is part of the installation log up until the execution command where it gets stuck.
Installing: dill-0.2.5-py35_0 (into root)
untgz::extract -d 'C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3' -zbz2 'C:\Users\use.name\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\pkgs\dill-0.2.5-py35_0.tar.bz2'
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill-0.2.5-py3.5.egg-info
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/__diff.py
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/__init__.py
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/__pycache__/__diff.cpython-35.pyc
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-35.pyc
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/__pycache__/_objects.cpython-35.pyc
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/__pycache__/detect.cpython-35.pyc
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/__pycache__/dill.cpython-35.pyc
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/__pycache__/info.cpython-35.pyc
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/__pycache__/objtypes.cpython-35.pyc
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Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/__pycache__/temp.cpython-35.pyc
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/_objects.py
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/detect.py
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/dill.py
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/info.py
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/objtypes.py
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/pointers.py
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/settings.py
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/source.py
Writing Lib/site-packages/dill/temp.py
Writing Scripts/get_objgraph.py
Writing Scripts/unpickle.py
Writing info/LICENSE.txt
Writing info/files
Writing info/has_prefix
Writing info/index.json
Writing info/platform
Writing info/recipe/bld.bat
Writing info/recipe/build.sh
Writing info/recipe/meta.yaml
extraction complete.
Execute: "C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\pythonw.exe" -E -s "C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\pkgs\.install.py" --root-prefix "C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3" --post root

I simply ended all python processes (any stale anaconda install/uninstall process running) and deleted all directories created during previous installation attempt. Then I could install without trouble.
If above effort does not work, check the environment path variables. It should not include any python path.

I have ended pythow process from taskmanager and removed unnecessary/irrelevant from environment path. It resolves my issues.

Try this, it worked for me:
conda install python=3.5
conda install tensorflow

Temporary disable antivirus and then try.
For me the installation was extremely slow, especially during the "unpacking" phase. After I disabled the "Real-time protection" under "Virus & threat protection" - the installation continued much faster.

I solved this issue by doing the following:
The installation was stuck on "extracting: anaconda-2020.02-py37_0.tar.bz2".
I went to https://anaconda.org/anaconda/anaconda/files and installed that file manually.
I extracted that file in the anaconda folder and it was all good!

As mentioned by ClaraJacintho in https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/6258#issuecomment-565063685:
I found that the "security module" called Warsaw (or GAS antifraud), used by many banks in Brazil for internet banking security, was interfering with the installation. I uninstalled it and was able to install Anaconda3.2019.10 64 bits on my Windows 10 machine.
It worked for me.

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Error--rescode.err_missing_license_file(1008): License cannot be located

I was running a python program which uses CVXPY to solve a optimization problem involving semi-definite constraints. Initially the code ran well when I was using the default solver provided by CVXPY. Then I tried to use MOSEK as the optimization solver. Since it has to be installed, I tried installing it from command prompt using a pip installer. However the installation was interrupted midway (I am unaware of the specific reasons). Now whenever I am trying to run the code, it is prompting an error-
rescode.err_missing_license_file(1008): License cannot be located. The default search path is ';C:\Users\dsouv\mosek\mosek.lic;'.
I can understand that somehow the default search path has been changed due to the failed installation of MOSEK. Even after calling the default solver of CVXPY, I am still getting the same error.
Things I have tried:
Reinstalling CVXPY.
Reinstalling MOSEK from the Anaconda Powershell Prompt.
Even after trying out these, the error still persist. Any suggestions to solve this issue is welcome. Also please me if you need any other informtion.
Thanks
You should install the license file separately. I.e. do step 3 at
https://www.mosek.com/resources/getting-started/

Issues with Path, installing packages, Conda environments, and several built-in commands

I've recently upgraded my PC with various bits and pieces and installed Windows 10 Pro. Most of what I do is data science related, but that's irrelevant.
I've had several issues with Anaconda 3 installations, my Path variables, installing various packages, and several Windows commands that I understood to be built-in:
Obviously, virtual environments are popular, and I've been using conda environments to run basic code without issue, however, several very key libraries are giving me issues when I try to install them. The first one I ran into an issue with was the very standard and presumably easy-to-install matplotlib, however, the issue I ran into here and am still getting is that chcp is not recognized as an internal or external command.... When I run where chcp as admin I have no issues. chcp will run without error as well, but as soon as stop cmd as admin, chcp nor where commands work whatsoever. I don't get it. I've done just about everything I can to the Path variable that I've seen online, and nothing has worked. Uninstalled and reinstalled. Nothing has changed.
Furthermore, isn't Anaconda supposed to come pre-installed with these?
note where does not return an error that would indicate that it's looking in the wrong directory; I get an exit code DNE 0 due to the command apparently not existing outside of admin privileges in \System32. Makes no sense to me and haven't found anything like this/ a vague resemblance of a solution elsewhere.
So with all of that in mind:
what might be causing this issue? Permissions? Locations? Something I'm missing from the Path variables? etc. Fixing the issue with chcp should do it for me.
How can I get the Anaconda "package" to, well, work? -> I can get the launcher, Jupyter notebooks, etc., but what I'm referring to here is the set of packages for Python itself -- that's why I went for Anaconda to begin with.
Thanks in advance.

Anaconda Prompt(Anaconda3) does not recognize files in a directory

I took to heart the message that support for anaconda2 was dropped. I installed anaconda3 and used 2to3 to convert my *.py codes. Everything seemed to work as expected. I have several 2 line bat codes that cd to a particular directory and then call python to execute a particular *.py code in that directory. By loading Anaconda Prompt(Anaconda3) and invoking the bat file I could run pythons in that directory as expected.
Then, a couple of days ago, I made such a run and got an error message saying the *.py file could not be found. I immediately looked in the directory and the python file was there as expected. I then did a dir command in Anaconda Prompt(Anaconda3) and found that almost no files in the directory were listed. This was happening on my windows 10 laptop.
On my desktop, everything continues to work as expected. Are there any suggestions as to what could cause such a problem and how to fix it.
Thanks,
Mack Elrod
Responding to the request for additional information, I have a bin directory that is in path. In bin\MackData.bat is
c:
cd %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Medev\MackData
copy sugarhist.png sugarhist.old.png
python MackData.py
When I open Anaconda Prompt(Anaconda3) and enter MackData I get
(base) C:\Users\Mack>MackData
(base) C:\Users\Mack>c:
(base) C:\Users\Mack>cd C:\Users\Mack\Documents\Medev\MackData
(base) C:\Users\Mack\Documents\Medev\MackData>copy sugarhist.png sugarhist.old.png
1 file(s) copied.
(base) C:\Users\Mack\Documents\Medev\MackData>python MackData.py
python: can't open file 'MackData.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
(base) C:\Users\Mack\Documents\Medev\MackData>
But MackData.py is a python file in the directory MackData.
This code worked on this laptop until a few days ago and continues to work on my desktop computer. I can, of course, publish MackData.py but that seems irrelevant. The point is that Anaconda can't find it.
Thanks,
Mack
I must submit a sincere apology to this community. I have determined my problem and Anaconda is not responsible in any way. I thank all of you for you concerns and comments.
For any who might be interested I will give a brief outline of what happened. First, I installed Anaconda3. Several days later my directory, MackData, was moved to a new location. I conjecture that happened by me inadvertently letting my hand drag on the touch pad. Then, not knowing the location had changed I updated my laptop from my desktop. My update program not finding MackData where expected recreated it and put only the most recently changed files from the desktop into the new MackData. New but in the correct location. Then of course running my script in the Anaconda3 prompt failed. Doing a dir in the Anaconda3 prompt showed only a few files were there. I then went to Windows File Explore and looked at MackData and saw all of the expected files. I used the quick access feature which unknown to me pointed to the old directory in its new location.
That is not intended to be an excuse but only as an explanation. Again, I do apologize to the community.
Mack Elrod
I'm pretty sure newer anaconda launchers users different environment paths, and not even windows ones.
I suggest either checking the environment path within the anaconda launcher and configurations or, a better solution in my opinion, run these scrips using the regular python engine, without using anaconda (simpler, more determinant and works within your standard environment)

Pygame/Python/Terminal/Mac related

I'm a beginner, I have really hit a brick wall, and would greatly appreciate any advice someone more advanced can offer.
I have been having a number of extremely frustrating issues the past few days, which I have been round and round google trying to solve, tried all sorts of things to no avail.
Problem 1)
I can't import pygame in Idle with the error:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pygame' - even though it is definitely installed, as in terminal, if I ask pip3 to install pygame it says:
Requirement already satisfied: pygame in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (1.9.4)
I think there may be a problem with several conflicting versions of python on my computer, as when i type sys.path in Idle (which by the way displays Python 3.7.2 ) the following are listed:
'/Users/myname/Documents', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python37.zip', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload', '/Users/myname/Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages'
So am I right in thinking pygame is in the python3.7/sitepackages version, and this is why idle won't import it? I don't know I'm just trying to make sense of this. I have absoloutely no clue how to solve this,"re-set the path" or whatever. I don't even know how to find all of these versions of python as only one appears in my applications folder, the rest are elsewhere?
Problem 2)
Apparently there should be a python 2.7 system version installed on every mac system which is vital to the running of python regardless of the developing environment you use. Yet all of my versions of python seem to be in the library/downloaded versions. Does this mean my system version of python is gone? I have put the computer in recovery mode today and done a reinstall of the macOS mojave system today, so shouldn't any possible lost version of python 2.7 be back on the system now?
Problem 3)
When I go to terminal, frequently every command I type is 'not found'.
I have sometimes found a temporary solution is typing:
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
but the problems always return!
As I say I also did a system reinstall today but that has helped none!
Can anybody please help me with these queries? I am really at the end of my tether and quite lost, forgive my programming ignorance please. Many thanks.
Try it with the problem1
I'm not an expert neither, but I think you need to install both in terminal and python in order to use the program.
python -m pip install pygame
You should actually add the export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" to your .bash_profile (if you are using bash). Do this by opening your terminal, verifying that it says "bash" at the top. If it doesn't, you may have a .zprofile instead. Type ls -al and it will list all the invisible files. If you have .bash_profile listed, use that one. If you have .zprofile, use that.
Type nano .bash_profile to open and edit the profile and add the command to the end of it. This will permanently add the path to your profile after you restart the terminal.
Use ^X to exit nano and type Y to save your changes. Then you can check that it works when you try to run the program from IDLE.

unable to execute 'x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-gcc': No such file or directory (pysam installation)

I am trying to install pysam.
After excecuting:
python path/to/pysam-master/setup.py build
This error is produced:
unable to execute 'x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-gcc': No such file or directory
error: command 'x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
There are similar threads, but they all seem to address the problem assumig administriator rights, which I do not have. Is there a way around to install the needed files?
DISCLAIMER: This question derived from a previous post of mine.
manually installing pysam error: "ImportError: No module named version"
But since it might require a different approach, I made it a question of its own.
You can also receive the same error while installing some R packages if R was installed using conda (as I had).
Then just install the package by executing: conda install gxx_linux-64 to have that command available.
Source:
https://github.com/RcppCore/Rcpp/issues/770#issuecomment-346716808
It looks like Anaconda had a new release (4.3.27) that sets the C compiler path to a non-existing executable (quite an embarrassing bug; I'm sure they'll fix it soon). I had a similar issue with pip installing using the latest Miniconda, which I fixed by using the 4.3.21 version and ensuring I was not doing something like conda update conda.
See https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/ which has release dates and versions.
It should now be safe to update conda. This is fixed in the following python packages for linux-64:
python-3.6.2-h0b30769_14.tar.bz2
python-2.7.14-h931c8b0_15.tar.bz2
python-2.7.13-hac47a24_15.tar.bz2
python-3.5.4-hc053d89_14.tar.bz2
The issue was as Jon Riehl described - we (Anaconda, formerly Continuum) build all of our packages with a new GCC package that we created using crosstool-ng. This package does not have gcc, it has a prefixed gcc - the missing command you're seeing, x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-gcc. This gets baked into python, and any extension built with that python goes looking for that compiler. We have fixed the issue using the _PYTHON_SYSCONFIGDATA_NAME variable that was added to python 3.6. We have backported that to python 2.7 and 3.5. You'll now only ever see python using default compilers (gcc), and you must set the _PYTHON_SYSCONFIGDATA_NAME to the appropriate filename to have the new compilers used. Setting this variable is something that we'll put into the activate scripts for the compiler package, so you'll never need to worry about it. It may take us a day or two to get new compiler packages out, though, so post issues on the conda-build issue tracker if you'd like to use the new compilers and need help getting started.
Relevant code changes are at:
py27: https://github.com/anacondarecipes/python-feedstock/tree/master-2.7.14
py35: https://github.com/anacondarecipes/python-feedstock/tree/master-3.5
py36: https://github.com/anacondarecipes/python-feedstock
The solution that worked for me was to use the conda to install the r packages:
conda install -c r r-tidyverse
or r-gggplot2, r-readr
Also ensure that the installation is not failing because of admin privileges.
It will save you a great deal of pain
After upgrading Golang to 1.19.1, I started to get:
# runtime/cgo
cgo: C compiler "x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-cc" not found: exec: "x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-cc": executable file not found in $PATH
Installing gcc_linux-64 from the same channel, has resolved it:
conda install -c anaconda gcc_linux-64
Somewhere in your $PATH (e.g., ~/bin), do
ln -sf $(which gcc) x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-gcc
Don't put this in a system directory or conda's bin directory, and remember to remove the link when the problem is resolved upstream. gcc --version should be version 6.
EDIT: I understand the sentiment in the comments against manipulating system paths, but maybe we can use a little critical thinking for the actual case in hand before reciting doctrine. What actually have we done with the command above? Nothing more than putting an executable (symlink) called x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-gcc in one's personal ~/bin directory.
If putting something in one's personal ~/bin directory broke future conda (after it fixes the C compiler path to point to gcc it embeds), then that would be a bug with conda. Would the existence of this verbosely named compiler mess with anything else? Unlikely either. Even if something did pick it up, it's just your system gcc after all...

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