Overview#

This page describes the tabs, menus, and buttons in the Anaconda Navigator window.

Online and offline modes#

Normally Navigator is used online so that it can download and install packages.

In online mode, Navigator must be able to reach these sites, so they may need to be allowlisted in your network’s firewall settings.

Offline mode#

If Navigator detects that internet access is not available, it automatically enables offline mode and displays this message:

In the Preferences dialog, select Enable offline mode to enter offline mode even if internet access is available.

Using Navigator in offline mode is equivalent to using the command line conda commands create, install, remove, and update with the flag --offline so that conda does not connect to the internet.

File menu#

The Anaconda Navigator menu (name may differ based on OS and launch method contains the following options:

About — displays information about Navigator, including a link for bug reports and feature requests. In Linux this is in the Help menu.

Preferences — allows you to set your Navigator preferences.

In the Preferences window you can:

  • Set the Anaconda.org API domain if you are going to use channels and packages from Anaconda.org.

Note

You must verify your Anaconda.org email address to use the Anaconda.org API.

  • Set the Anaconda Server API domain if you are going to use channels and packages from the Business (On-prem) tier (also known as Anaconda Server).

  • Set the Enterprise 4 Repository API domain if you are going to use channels and packages from your Repo 4 server.

  • Enable or disable SSL verification.

  • Optionally set a certificate to verify SSL connections.

  • Toggle the option to provide personally non-identifiable information to help improve the product.

  • Enable or disable offline mode.

  • Hide the offline mode dialog box.

  • Hide the Quit dialog box when exiting the program.

  • Hide the Update dialog box when starting the program.

  • Hide the Close running applications dialog, which normally displays when exiting the program if there are still running applications that were launched from Navigator.

  • Modify Navigator’s display with Enable High DPI scaling option. This option can be useful if Navigator isn’t displaying correctly on some high DPI screens.

  • Show application startup error messages.

  • Set the PyCharm Community Edition path if it was not installed in the default location.

  • Set the PyCharm Pro path if it was not installed in the default location.

  • Set the Visual Studio Code path if it was not installed in the default location.

    Tip

    Click the Reset to defaults button to change preferences back to their default values.

Caution

Be careful when changing values directly in the configuration files for Navigator or conda. Incorrect configuration can cause issues with these products.

  • Make changes to the Navigator configuration file (anaconda-navigator.ini).

Note

There is a base configuration validation tool included, so if the user misses any required section or option they will be informed through a popup box. See figure below.

  • Make changes to the Conda configuration file (.condarc).

Note

There is a base configuration validation tool included. The .condarc file must be a valid yaml format file. If the content is not in a valid yaml format, the user will receive an error. See figure below.

  • Services (macOS only)–links to your computer’s system preferences menu.

  • Hide Anaconda-Navigator (macOS only)–hides the Navigator window.

  • Hide Others (macOS only)–hides all windows except the Navigator window.

  • Show All (macOS only)–shows all windows including the Navigator window.

  • Quit Anaconda-Navigator–exits Navigator.

Help menu#

The Help menu contains links to documentation and Navigator logs.

Search

Allows you to search your computer’s Help (Windows and macOS only).

Online documentation

Links to this documentation, which you can read in any web browser. You can also open this documentation by clicking the Documentation button at the bottom left of the Navigator window.

Logs viewer

Allows you to review the logs of all actions performed in Navigator in the current session. This option displays a list of log files, including navigator.log, which contains Navigator application logs, and condamanager.log, which contains logs written by the conda-manager component.

Note

A new log file is created every time you run Navigator, with a number added to the end of the file name. More recent log files have higher numbers.