Doesn't work after installing Anaconda

[varietywalls]

Doesn't work after installing Anaconda

[jzazo]

Hey, you are totally right. Appending fixed it, no more conflicts, both nbopen and variety work well together when doing that. Thanks!

PD: just to clarify, when pre-pending in .bashrc there is no conflict at all, both variety and anaconda environments work well. The problem came when I prepended in .profile.

[jlu5]

Hi,

Some tips to help diagnose this further:

1. In what way does Variety stop working after installing Anaconda? Does it fail to start completely or break on something specific like downloading images or updating wallpapers? If it fails to start, try running variety from a terminal and paste any traceback / error messages that are shown there (i.e. in the terminal).

2. Can you explain how exactly you installed Anaconda so that we have a method of reproducing this issue?

[jzazo]

Hi, thanks for the response.

1. Variety loads and runs, but fails to change wallpapers. It does download new images (if I select "wallpaper selector" I see all new wallpapers, but selecting them change nothing. Nor does clicking "next" or "previous" in the appindicator. I attached a logfile in my first post with an error message that shows up when calling variety from terminal.
2. I downloaded the 64bit version of Anaconda 3.6 and run the script from a terminal. I installed to /opt/anaconda3 and then let the script modify my ~/.bashrc profile, which now includes the following line: export PATH="/opt/anaconda3/bin:$PATH".

[jzazo]

Hey, I figured something out. You pointed me to the right direction.
I did something else when installing Anaconda, which was to export the python profile not only in ~/.bashrc but also in ~/.profile. The reason for doing that is because I am using nbopen package to make jupyter notebooks clickable, and it requires such line in the profile. If I comment that line, variety is again able to change wallpapers.

What do you think could be interfering that makes variety not able to change wallpapers when the profile has such a line?

[jlu5]

I don't see any errors in the log you provided - maybe Anaconda ships some binary with a conflicting name to something set_wallpaper uses? What does ls /opt/anaconda3/bin give?

[jzazo]

I attach this file with the output: ls.log
There is gsettings. Maybe that is a conflict.

[jlu5]

Yeah, the way they override gsettings and qdbus might cause issues.

If you need Anaconda for a specific app, it may be better to override it per application with a wrapper script instead of changing the PATH globally, e.g. a shell script that runs env PATH="/opt/anaconda3/bin:$PATH" nbopen "$@"

[jzazo]

OK, thank you. I will explore this option.

[cgoldberg]

export PATH="/opt/anaconda3/bin:$PATH"

you should probably append to PATH rather than prepend... that might fix things. You could be shadowing existing commands if you prepend.