An error occurred while starting the kernel

[dinsli-coder]

An error occurred while starting the kernel Spyder couldn't find conda, mamba or micromamba in your system to activate the kernel's environment. Please add the directory where at least one of their executables is located to your PATH environment variable for it to be detected.

[ccordoba12]

Hey @dinsli-coder, thanks for reporting. This problem happens because you installed Anaconda, Miniconda or Miniforge in a non-standard location (i.e. not in C:\Anaconda3 or C:\Users\<your user>\Miniconda).

Due to that, Spyder can't find conda to activate the kernel corresponding to each IPython console. To solve it you need to:

• Locate where conda is located. For that, please open the Anaconda Prompt (you can find it by looking for it in the Start menu) and then run where conda
• Add the directory printed above (not the conda executable but it's parent directory) to PATH. For that, please follow the instructions in this video.

Let us know if that fixes the problem for you.