bash: cd: /home/user/.conda/pkgs: No such file or directory

Question

I have had the loader problem with my conda similar to this post:

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'loader'

So when can not solve it i have decides to reinstall conda by These command:

conda install anaconda-clean
anaconda-clean --yes
wget https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2020.11-Linux-x86_64.sh
sudo bash Anaconda3-2020.11-Linux-x86_64.sh

So based of this post my Conda information is:

 active environment: base active env location: /home/so/anaconda3 shell level: 1 user config file: /home/so/.condarc populated config files: /home/so/.condarc conda version: 4.9.2 conda-build version: 3.20.5 python version: 3.8.5.final.0 virtual packages: __cuda=11.0=0 __glibc=2.27=0 __unix=0=0 __archspec=1=x86_64 base environment: /home/so/anaconda3 (read only) channel URLs: https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/linux-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/linux-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch package cache: /home/so/anaconda3/pkgs /home/so/.conda/pkgs envs directories: /home/so/.conda/envs /home/so/anaconda3/envs platform: linux-64 user-agent: conda/4.9.2 requests/2.24.0 CPython/3.8.5 Linux/5.4.0-66-generic ubuntu/18.04.5 glibc/2.27 UID:GID: 1000:1000 netrc file: None offline mode: False ``` and `conda config --show-sources` is: ``` conda config --show-sources ==> /home/so/.condarc <== ssl_verify: True channels: - defaults ``` and `conda list --show-channel-urls` is: ``` conda list --show-channel-urls # packages in environment at /home/so/anaconda3: # # Name Version Build Channel _ipyw_jlab_nb_ext_conf 0.1.0 py38_0 defaults _libgcc_mutex 0.1 main defaults alabaster 0.7.12 py_0 defaults anaconda 2020.11 py38_0 defaults anaconda-client 1.7.2 py38_0 defaults anaconda-navigator 1.10.0 py38_0 defaults anaconda-project 0.8.4 py_0 defaults argh 0.26.2 py38_0 defaults argon2-cffi 20.1.0 py38h7b6447c_1 defaults asn1crypto 1.4.0 py_0 defaults astroid 2.4.2 py38_0 defaults astropy 4.0.2 py38h7b6447c_0 defaults async_generator 1.10 py_0 defaults atomicwrites 1.4.0 py_0 defaults attrs 20.3.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults autopep8 1.5.4 py_0 defaults babel 2.8.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults backcall 0.2.0 py_0 defaults backports 1.0 py_2 defaults backports.functools_lru_cache 1.6.1 py_0 defaults backports.shutil_get_terminal_size 1.0.0 py38_2 defaults backports.tempfile 1.0 py_1 defaults backports.weakref 1.0.post1 py_1 defaults beautifulsoup4 4.9.3 pyhb0f4dca_0 defaults bitarray 1.6.1 py38h27cfd23_0 defaults bkcharts 0.2 py38_0 defaults blas 1.0 mkl defaults bleach 3.2.1 py_0 defaults blosc 1.20.1 hd408876_0 defaults bokeh 2.2.3 py38_0 defaults boto 2.49.0 py38_0 defaults bottleneck 1.3.2 py38heb32a55_1 defaults brotlipy 0.7.0 py38h7b6447c_1000 defaults bzip2 1.0.8 h7b6447c_0 defaults ca-certificates 2020.10.14 0 defaults cairo 1.14.12 h8948797_3 defaults certifi 2020.6.20 pyhd3eb1b0_3 defaults cffi 1.14.3 py38he30daa8_0 defaults chardet 3.0.4 py38_1003 defaults click 7.1.2 py_0 defaults cloudpickle 1.6.0 py_0 defaults clyent 1.2.2 py38_1 defaults colorama 0.4.4 py_0 defaults conda 4.9.2 py38h06a4308_0 defaults conda-build 3.20.5 py38_1 defaults conda-env 2.6.0 1 defaults conda-package-handling 1.7.2 py38h03888b9_0 defaults conda-verify 3.4.2 py_1 defaults contextlib2 0.6.0.post1 py_0 defaults cryptography 3.1.1 py38h1ba5d50_0 defaults curl 7.71.1 hbc83047_1 defaults cycler 0.10.0 py38_0 defaults cython 0.29.21 py38he6710b0_0 defaults cytoolz 0.11.0 py38h7b6447c_0 defaults dask 2.30.0 py_0 defaults dask-core 2.30.0 py_0 defaults dbus 1.13.18 hb2f20db_0 defaults decorator 4.4.2 py_0 defaults defusedxml 0.6.0 py_0 defaults diff-match-patch 20200713 py_0 defaults distributed 2.30.1 py38h06a4308_0 defaults docutils 0.16 py38_1 defaults entrypoints 0.3 py38_0 defaults et_xmlfile 1.0.1 py_1001 defaults expat 2.2.10 he6710b0_2 defaults fastcache 1.1.0 py38h7b6447c_0 defaults filelock 3.0.12 py_0 defaults flake8 3.8.4 py_0 defaults flask 1.1.2 py_0 defaults fontconfig 2.13.0 h9420a91_0 defaults freetype 2.10.4 h5ab3b9f_0 defaults fribidi 1.0.10 h7b6447c_0 defaults fsspec 0.8.3 py_0 defaults future 0.18.2 py38_1 defaults get_terminal_size 1.0.0 haa9412d_0 defaults gevent 20.9.0 py38h7b6447c_0 defaults glib 2.66.1 h92f7085_0 defaults glob2 0.7 py_0 defaults gmp 6.1.2 h6c8ec71_1 defaults gmpy2 2.0.8 py38hd5f6e3b_3 defaults graphite2 1.3.14 h23475e2_0 defaults greenlet 0.4.17 py38h7b6447c_0 defaults gst-plugins-base 1.14.0 hbbd80ab_1 defaults gstreamer 1.14.0 hb31296c_0 defaults h5py 2.10.0 py38h7918eee_0 defaults harfbuzz 2.4.0 hca77d97_1 defaults hdf5 1.10.4 hb1b8bf9_0 defaults heapdict 1.0.1 py_0 defaults html5lib 1.1 py_0 defaults icu 58.2 he6710b0_3 defaults idna 2.10 py_0 defaults imageio 2.9.0 py_0 defaults imagesize 1.2.0 py_0 defaults importlib-metadata 2.0.0 py_1 defaults importlib_metadata 2.0.0 1 defaults iniconfig 1.1.1 py_0 defaults intel-openmp 2020.2 254 defaults intervaltree 3.1.0 py_0 defaults ipykernel 5.3.4 py38h5ca1d4c_0 defaults ipython 7.19.0 py38hb070fc8_0 defaults ipython_genutils 0.2.0 py38_0 defaults ipywidgets 7.5.1 py_1 defaults isort 5.6.4 py_0 defaults itsdangerous 1.1.0 py_0 defaults jbig 2.1 hdba287a_0 defaults jdcal 1.4.1 py_0 defaults jedi 0.17.1 py38_0 defaults jeepney 0.5.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults jinja2 2.11.2 py_0 defaults joblib 0.17.0 py_0 defaults jpeg 9b h024ee3a_2 defaults json5 0.9.5 py_0 defaults jsonschema 3.2.0 py_2 defaults jupyter 1.0.0 py38_7 defaults jupyter_client 6.1.7 py_0 defaults jupyter_console 6.2.0 py_0 defaults jupyter_core 4.6.3 py38_0 defaults jupyterlab 2.2.6 py_0 defaults jupyterlab_pygments 0.1.2 py_0 defaults jupyterlab_server 1.2.0 py_0 defaults keyring 21.4.0 py38_1 defaults kiwisolver 1.3.0 py38h2531618_0 defaults krb5 1.18.2 h173b8e3_0 defaults lazy-object-proxy 1.4.3 py38h7b6447c_0 defaults lcms2 2.11 h396b838_0 defaults ld_impl_linux-64 2.33.1 h53a641e_7 defaults libarchive 3.4.2 h62408e4_0 defaults libcurl 7.71.1 h20c2e04_1 defaults libedit 3.1.20191231 h14c3975_1 defaults libffi 3.3 he6710b0_2 defaults libgcc-ng 9.1.0 hdf63c60_0 defaults libgfortran-ng 7.3.0 hdf63c60_0 defaults liblief 0.10.1 he6710b0_0 defaults libllvm10 10.0.1 hbcb73fb_5 defaults libllvm9 9.0.1 h4a3c616_1 defaults libpng 1.6.37 hbc83047_0 defaults libsodium 1.0.18 h7b6447c_0 defaults libspatialindex 1.9.3 he6710b0_0 defaults libssh2 1.9.0 h1ba5d50_1 defaults libstdcxx-ng 9.1.0 hdf63c60_0 defaults libtiff 4.1.0 h2733197_1 defaults libtool 2.4.6 h7b6447c_1005 defaults libuuid 1.0.3 h1bed415_2 defaults libxcb 1.14 h7b6447c_0 defaults libxml2 2.9.10 hb55368b_3 defaults libxslt 1.1.34 hc22bd24_0 defaults llvmlite 0.34.0 py38h269e1b5_4 defaults locket 0.2.0 py38_1 defaults lxml 4.6.1 py38hefd8a0e_0 defaults lz4-c 1.9.2 heb0550a_3 defaults lzo 2.10 h7b6447c_2 defaults markupsafe 1.1.1 py38h7b6447c_0 defaults matplotlib 3.3.2 0 defaults matplotlib-base 3.3.2 py38h817c723_0 defaults mccabe 0.6.1 py38_1 defaults mistune 0.8.4 py38h7b6447c_1000 defaults mkl 2020.2 256 defaults mkl-service 2.3.0 py38he904b0f_0 defaults mkl_fft 1.2.0 py38h23d657b_0 defaults mkl_random 1.1.1 py38h0573a6f_0 defaults mock 4.0.2 py_0 defaults more-itertools 8.6.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults mpc 1.1.0 h10f8cd9_1 defaults mpfr 4.0.2 hb69a4c5_1 defaults mpmath 1.1.0 py38_0 defaults msgpack-python 1.0.0 py38hfd86e86_1 defaults multipledispatch 0.6.0 py38_0 defaults navigator-updater 0.2.1 py38_0 defaults nbclient 0.5.1 py_0 defaults nbconvert 6.0.7 py38_0 defaults nbformat 5.0.8 py_0 defaults ncurses 6.2 he6710b0_1 defaults nest-asyncio 1.4.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults networkx 2.5 py_0 defaults nltk 3.5 py_0 defaults nose 1.3.7 py38_2 defaults notebook 6.1.4 py38_0 defaults numba 0.51.2 py38h0573a6f_1 defaults numexpr 2.7.1 py38h423224d_0 defaults numpy 1.19.2 py38h54aff64_0 defaults numpy-base 1.19.2 py38hfa32c7d_0 defaults numpydoc 1.1.0 pyhd3eb1b0_1 defaults olefile 0.46 py_0 defaults openpyxl 3.0.5 py_0 defaults openssl 1.1.1h h7b6447c_0 defaults packaging 20.4 py_0 defaults pandas 1.1.3 py38he6710b0_0 defaults pandoc 2.11 hb0f4dca_0 defaults pandocfilters 1.4.3 py38h06a4308_1 defaults pango 1.45.3 hd140c19_0 defaults parso 0.7.0 py_0 defaults partd 1.1.0 py_0 defaults patchelf 0.12 he6710b0_0 defaults path 15.0.0 py38_0 defaults path.py 12.5.0 0 defaults pathlib2 2.3.5 py38_0 defaults pathtools 0.1.2 py_1 defaults patsy 0.5.1 py38_0 defaults pcre 8.44 he6710b0_0 defaults pep8 1.7.1 py38_0 defaults pexpect 4.8.0 py38_0 defaults pickleshare 0.7.5 py38_1000 defaults pillow 8.0.1 py38he98fc37_0 defaults pip 20.2.4 py38h06a4308_0 defaults pixman 0.40.0 h7b6447c_0 defaults pkginfo 1.6.1 py38h06a4308_0 defaults pluggy 0.13.1 py38_0 defaults ply 3.11 py38_0 defaults prometheus_client 0.8.0 py_0 defaults prompt-toolkit 3.0.8 py_0 defaults prompt_toolkit 3.0.8 0 defaults psutil 5.7.2 py38h7b6447c_0 defaults ptyprocess 0.6.0 py38_0 defaults py 1.9.0 py_0 defaults py-lief 0.10.1 py38h403a769_0 defaults pycodestyle 2.6.0 py_0 defaults pycosat 0.6.3 py38h7b6447c_1 defaults pycparser 2.20 py_2 defaults pycurl 7.43.0.6 py38h1ba5d50_0 defaults pydocstyle 5.1.1 py_0 defaults pyflakes 2.2.0 py_0 defaults pygments 2.7.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults pylint 2.6.0 py38_0 defaults pyodbc 4.0.30 py38he6710b0_0 defaults pyopenssl 19.1.0 py_1 defaults pyparsing 2.4.7 py_0 defaults pyqt 5.9.2 py38h05f1152_4 defaults pyrsistent 0.17.3 py38h7b6447c_0 defaults pysocks 1.7.1 py38_0 defaults pytables 3.6.1 py38h9fd0a39_0 defaults pytest 6.1.1 py38_0 defaults python 3.8.5 h7579374_1 defaults python-dateutil 2.8.1 py_0 defaults python-jsonrpc-server 0.4.0 py_0 defaults python-language-server 0.35.1 py_0 defaults python-libarchive-c 2.9 py_0 defaults pytz 2020.1 py_0 defaults pywavelets 1.1.1 py38h7b6447c_2 defaults pyxdg 0.27 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults pyyaml 5.3.1 py38h7b6447c_1 defaults pyzmq 19.0.2 py38he6710b0_1 defaults qdarkstyle 2.8.1 py_0 defaults qt 5.9.7 h5867ecd_1 defaults qtawesome 1.0.1 py_0 defaults qtconsole 4.7.7 py_0 defaults qtpy 1.9.0 py_0 defaults readline 8.0 h7b6447c_0 defaults regex 2020.10.15 py38h7b6447c_0 defaults requests 2.24.0 py_0 defaults ripgrep 12.1.1 0 defaults rope 0.18.0 py_0 defaults rtree 0.9.4 py38_1 defaults ruamel_yaml 0.15.87 py38h7b6447c_1 defaults scikit-image 0.17.2 py38hdf5156a_0 defaults scikit-learn 0.23.2 py38h0573a6f_0 defaults scipy 1.5.2 py38h0b6359f_0 defaults seaborn 0.11.0 py_0 defaults secretstorage 3.1.2 py38_0 defaults send2trash 1.5.0 py38_0 defaults setuptools 50.3.1 py38h06a4308_1 defaults simplegeneric 0.8.1 py38_2 defaults singledispatch 3.4.0.3 py_1001 defaults sip 4.19.13 py38he6710b0_0 defaults six 1.15.0 py38h06a4308_0 defaults snappy 1.1.8 he6710b0_0 defaults snowballstemmer 2.0.0 py_0 defaults sortedcollections 1.2.1 py_0 defaults sortedcontainers 2.2.2 py_0 defaults soupsieve 2.0.1 py_0 defaults sphinx 3.2.1 py_0 defaults sphinxcontrib 1.0 py38_1 defaults sphinxcontrib-applehelp 1.0.2 py_0 defaults sphinxcontrib-devhelp 1.0.2 py_0 defaults sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp 1.0.3 py_0 defaults sphinxcontrib-jsmath 1.0.1 py_0 defaults sphinxcontrib-qthelp 1.0.3 py_0 defaults sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml 1.1.4 py_0 defaults sphinxcontrib-websupport 1.2.4 py_0 defaults spyder 4.1.5 py38_0 defaults spyder-kernels 1.9.4 py38_0 defaults sqlalchemy 1.3.20 py38h7b6447c_0 defaults sqlite 3.33.0 h62c20be_0 defaults statsmodels 0.12.0 py38h7b6447c_0 defaults sympy 1.6.2 py38h06a4308_1 defaults tbb 2020.3 hfd86e86_0 defaults tblib 1.7.0 py_0 defaults terminado 0.9.1 py38_0 defaults testpath 0.4.4 py_0 defaults threadpoolctl 2.1.0 pyh5ca1d4c_0 defaults tifffile 2020.10.1 py38hdd07704_2 defaults tk 8.6.10 hbc83047_0 defaults toml 0.10.1 py_0 defaults toolz 0.11.1 py_0 defaults tornado 6.0.4 py38h7b6447c_1 defaults tqdm 4.50.2 py_0 defaults traitlets 5.0.5 py_0 defaults typing_extensions 3.7.4.3 py_0 defaults ujson 4.0.1 py38he6710b0_0 defaults unicodecsv 0.14.1 py38_0 defaults unixodbc 2.3.9 h7b6447c_0 defaults urllib3 1.25.11 py_0 defaults watchdog 0.10.3 py38_0 defaults wcwidth 0.2.5 py_0 defaults webencodings 0.5.1 py38_1 defaults werkzeug 1.0.1 py_0 defaults wheel 0.35.1 py_0 defaults widgetsnbextension 3.5.1 py38_0 defaults wrapt 1.11.2 py38h7b6447c_0 defaults wurlitzer 2.0.1 py38_0 defaults xlrd 1.2.0 py_0 defaults xlsxwriter 1.3.7 py_0 defaults xlwt 1.3.0 py38_0 defaults xmltodict 0.12.0 py_0 defaults xz 5.2.5 h7b6447c_0 defaults yaml 0.2.5 h7b6447c_0 defaults yapf 0.30.0 py_0 defaults zeromq 4.3.3 he6710b0_3 defaults zict 2.0.0 py_0 defaults zipp 3.4.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0 defaults zlib 1.2.11 h7b6447c_3 defaults zope 1.0 py38_1 defaults zope.event 4.5.0 py38_0 defaults zope.interface 5.1.2 py38h7b6447c_0 defaults zstd 1.4.5 h9ceee32_0 defaults

but when i tried to install the Jupyter by conda install -c conda-forge jupyterlab command i get this error:

(base) so@so-Lenovo-ideapad-310-15IKB:~/Downloads$  conda install -c conda-forge jupyterlab

Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): failed

NotWritableError: The current user does not have write permissions to a required path.
 path: /home/so/.conda/pkgs/urls.txt
 uid: 1000
 gid: 1000

If you feel that permissions on this path are set incorrectly, you can manually
change them by executing

 $ sudo chown 1000:1000 /home/so/.conda/pkgs/urls.txt

In general, it's not advisable to use 'sudo conda'.

And i have understand the /home/so/.conda/pkgs folder is not exist as you can see below:

(base) so@so-Lenovo-ideapad-310-15IKB:~$ cd /home/so/.conda/pkgs
bash: cd: /home/so/.conda/pkgs: No such file or directory

So what do you suggest to solve this problem?

Update:

I have found solution and write it as answer to this question for other usage, But I don't know why by removing the 'username:` part of the above command, like said here and shown below, it was not working?

(base) so@so-Lenovo-ideapad-310-15IKB:~$ sudo chmod -R +x /home/so/anaconda3
(base) so@so-Lenovo-ideapad-310-15IKB:~$ sudo chmod -R +x /home/so/.conda
(base) so@so-Lenovo-ideapad-310-15IKB:~$ conda update --all
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): failed

NotWritableError: The current user does not have write permissions to a required path.
  path: /home/so/.conda/pkgs/urls.txt
  uid: 1000
  gid: 1000

If you feel that permissions on this path are set incorrectly, you can manually
change them by executing

  $ sudo chown 1000:1000 /home/so/.conda/pkgs/urls.txt

In general, it's not advisable to use 'sudo conda'.

Thanks.

Answer 1

It was the conda permission problem and based of this post and its answers, I tried these commands:

so@so-Lenovo-ideapad-310-15IKB:~$ sudo chown -R so: /home/so/anaconda3
so@so-Lenovo-ideapad-310-15IKB:~$ sudo chown -R so: /home/so/.conda

And my problem as you can see below solved:

Thanks.