How to create a desktop-entry for anaconda on Ubuntu 17.10?
First, check if anaconda3 is installed on your system or not (Sometime the package may be broken due to network issues during installation (Not worked for me)). And whether you are able to launch anaconda-navigator
without a desktop entry.
For creating a desktop entry
Step 1. Open your text editor and save the following content as Anaconda.desktop
to your home directory.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Anaconda-Navigator
GenericName=Anaconda
Comment=Scientific Python Development Environment - Python3
Exec='$HOME/anaconda3/bin/anaconda-navigator'
Categories=Development;Science;IDE;Qt;Education;
Icon=$HOME/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/anaconda_navigator/static/images/anaconda-icon-256x256.png
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
MimeType=text/x-python;
Take care with the Python version. in $HOME/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/anaconda_navigator/static/images/anaconda-icon-256x256.png
change python3.8
if needed
Step 2. Copy your Anaconda.desktop
to /usr/share/applications/
as root (Because you might need permission to copy at /usr/share/applications/)
sudo cp Anaconda.desktop /usr/share/applications
This will create a desktop entry named Anaconda
in /usr/share/applications/
.
Step 3. add this line export PATH="$HOME/anaconda3/bin:$PATH"
to your /etc/profile
or $HOME/.bashrc
Step 4. Check if Anaconda
is added to your application dock. If you didn't find it, search it in search-bar. Or you can run directly from /usr/share/applications/Anaconda.desktop
.
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Updated on May 30, 2022Comments
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Jishan Shaikh over 1 year
I've recently installed anaconda3 in Ubuntu 17.10 (system environment). To run anaconda-navigator, I've to activate root for each time as
Source ~/anaconda3/bin/activate root
And to run it I've to write each time
anaconda-navigator
Now I am wanted to create a desktop entry but I'm having errors at multiple stages. Can you please explain from beginning how to create a desktop-entry for anaconda3 on Linux?
EDIT: I've tried using this post on AskUbuntu. But, it failed for me. It is not showing on dock-bar as well as in
/usr/share/applications
. I'm really frustrated. -
Jishan Shaikh almost 5 yearsCreating a desktop entry may be sometimes tricky in other Linux distributions.
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Jishan Shaikh almost 5 yearsThere might also be some trouble in installation of anaconda that does not leads to a desktop entry in dock.
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Jishan Shaikh almost 5 yearsYou can also test that.
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Jishan Shaikh almost 5 yearsThis is also doable.