How to install anaconda through home-brew m1 mac m2 m3 m4

Question

I just got an m1 Mac and installed anaconda using home-brew:

brew install anaconda

It looked like it worked great, except that when I actually go to use anaconda and type "conda" I get the dreaded "conda command not found" error. How do I fix this?

Based on the answer given by @Peter here as well as the anaconda documentation, adding to path is no longer recommended. The answers here also did not solve the problem.

Answer 1

Figured it out! Challenge lay in the home-brew path. To run the conda init zsh command, detailed by @Sebastian in the answer here, I had to specify home-brew, as well as back up a couple directories. The command that actually got it done in terminal was:

/opt/homebrew/anaconda3/bin/conda init zsh

Happy home-brew anaconda-ing on your new m1s everyone.

Answer 2

I ran into this same issue when installing condo on my Mac M2 with brew e.g. homebrew.

Complete list of steps I ran, to resolve that:

$ brew install anaconda
...
PREFIX=/opt/homebrew/anaconda3
...
$ /opt/homebrew/anaconda3/bin/conda init $(basename $SHELL)
modified      /Users/ritvik/.zshrc

==> For changes to take effect, close and re-open your current shell. <==

N.B. when running brew install anaconda, brew itself prints the folder path to anaconda installation in the terminal. You can see it in above:

PREFIX=/opt/homebrew/anaconda3

Just tack on a /bin/conda to that directory, and one will locate the condo executable path.