no package gets installed using pip in anaconda

Question

I have noticed that any package I install using pip gets installed in the default Python directory and not anaconda and this is very troubling. I tried to edit the PATH variable in my system using :

export PATH=/home/karen/anaconda3/bin:$PATH

The only thing I achived with this was that when I type python it starts anaconda (before, that command in the terminal just started the default python). So when I uninstall anaconda I can access the libraries I installed using pip in default python. So how can I fix this problem?

I'm using Ubuntu 15.10.

Answer 1

If my guess is correct which pip will return the system installed pip, not the one in /home/karen/anaconda3/bin . If this is the case, then you can fix your issue with conda install pip . Then pip install <some package> will dump <some package> in to /home/karen/anaconda3/lib/pythonX.X/site-packages/<some package>