Creating environment in miniconda on Mac M1

Question

I recently got a new Mac with M1 processor. From the terminal I installed miniconda through home-brew. Then, I tried to create a new conda environment as usual using conda create --name my_env. Then, I try to activate the environment using conda activate my_env, but I get the following error:

CommandNotFoundError: Your shell has not been properly configured to use 'conda activate'.
To initialize your shell, run

    $ conda init <SHELL_NAME>

Currently supported shells are:
  - bash
  - fish
  - tcsh
  - xonsh
  - zsh
  - powershell

See 'conda init --help' for more information and options.

IMPORTANT: You may need to close and restart your shell after running 'conda init'.

I obey of course, and I run conda init bash and close and restart my shell. However, when I then try to activate my environment I receive the above error again (and rerunning conda init bash does not fix the problem because it simply says 'no action taken'.

Questions:

Does anyone know why I still can't run conda activate?
Is it smart to even use miniconda for Python without Rosetta?

Many thanks

What do you mean by "this doesn't work"? How exactly does it "not work"? — ForceBru, Oct 07 '21 at 12:36
Well, even after configuring my shell to bash I am unable to run `conda activate`. Changed the question. — Geo_toto, Oct 07 '21 at 12:43
Are you sure your shell is BASH? AFAIK, macOS switched to zsh be default — ForceBru, Oct 07 '21 at 12:45
Proposed duplicate: [How to run Conda?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18675907/how-to-run-conda) Namely, see answer on `conda init` which documents using `zsh` for MacOS 10.15+. — merv, Oct 08 '21 at 19:12

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '22 at 09:35

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Mac changed the shell from Bash to Zsh a couple years ago. So, you need to do

conda init zsh

answered May 14 '22 at 09:35

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