can't import conda installed packages into spyder' ipython console

[rick debbout]

I installed PySal like so -> conda install pysal

I ran a python console in the terminal and import pysal...No probs

I run an Ipython console in the terminal and import pysal...No problem

Open spyder, I try to import pysal at the Ipython console...no luck!

move to the python console, still No Luck.

sys.prefix in spyder consoles reads '/usr/'
sys.prefix at the terminal reads '/home/rick/anaconda2'

then I read to do Preference->Console->Advanced Settings->and switch the python executable to 'home/rick/anaconda2/bin/

python'

now if I try to open an Ipython kernel it fails with this error:

An error ocurred while starting the kernel

Either:
Your IPython frontend and kernel versions are incompatible or
You don't have IPython installed in your external interpreter.
In any case, we're sorry but we can't create a console for you.

but, if I use the python console in Spyder I can now import pysal.

What is this all about?

~rick

[Jitse Niesen]

I think you have two versions of Python installed. One comes with the system and the program probably is /usr/bin/python, the other comes with Anaconda and the program is /home/rick/Anaconda2/bin/python. When you open an (i)python console or when you do 'conda install', the Anaconda python environment is used (as it should be). However, it seems that when you open spyder, the system Python environment is used. Maybe you don't have spyder in the Anaconda environment (in which case, do: conda install spyder). If you do have spyder installed in the Anaconda environment, try giving the full path: /home/rick/Anaconda2/bin/spyder.