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Failed to initialize anaconda directories Windows 11

I installed anaconda the latest version of anaconda, anaconda3-2022.05 and i got the error failed to initialize anaconda directories and it is pointing towards anaconda3\lib_nsis.py and i don't know what is the problem and even when using old version of anaconda still get the same error.
Can someone help please

(Alternative solution) Issues with Anaconda install - Failed to create Anaconda menus

I recently uninstalled Anaconda 3 as it was giving me issues but after installing it and trying to use the latest Anaconda3-2019.10 for Windows I got the "Failed to create Anaconda menus" error each time i installed. I check PATHs, checked and cleaned registry and still not hope.

SOLUTION: Some how re-installing the exact same old version of Anaconda3-5.2.0-Windows-x86_64 worked!
I cannot explain it.

Anaconda "import georaster" error: specified module not found

I am using Anaconda3 5.2.0 for Windows 10 64 bit, which is python 3.6.5 (Anaconda3-5.2.0-Windows-x86_64.exe). I have installed this into C:\Anaconda3 and then from the anaconda prompt installed basemap:
conda install -c conda-forge basemap
conda install -c conda-forge basemap-data-files
I have used this to start building map files and everything is working fine. I then wanted to add a raster to the map using georaster.
conda install -c conda-forge georaster
This also installs gdal.
When I open Jupyter Notebook and enter the line
import georaster
I get the following error message:
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
I have tried various solutions that I have seen for related issues including installing a gdal update, fiona, and geopandas. None of these change the message.
I tried installing gdal using the binaries .whl file in conda, but despite following the advice (which said to use pip) I was not able to make it work.
pip install GDAL-2.2.4-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl
resulted in an error message:
GDAL-2.2.4-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.
Finally I went looking to see if I could locate the missing DLL manually. I saw one user suggest libtiff.dll was the missing file, and indeed it was one I did not have. I downloaded it and copied it into the System32 and SysWOW64 folders. This still resulted in an error but changed the error message:
ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
However I could not find a way to stop the error from occurring. I followed the steps to register the .dll but that also had an error message from not found to not supported:
(cmd prompt in administrator mode)
regsvr32.exe /i libtiff.dll
The module "libtiff.dll" failed to load.
Make sure the binary is stored at the specified path or debug it to check for problems with the binary or dependent .DLL files.
The specified module could not be found.
I have tried downloading from 2 other websites, neither with any success. It is feeling like every method I attempt now just hits some weird error that nobody else is seeming to have and I don't understand why.
If anyone could offer some advice I'd be very appreciative. Thank you in advance.

downloading the required *.whl file(GDAL-2.2.4-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl) from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#gdal and then copying it to a location like C:\GDAL-2.2.4-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
then pip install c:\GDAL-2.2.4-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
worked for me.
Thanks.

Could not import cufflinks

Problem
I am trying to install both plotly and cufflinks. However I had a problem.
The installation of both plotly and cufflinks were successful. Although, I can't import cufflinks.
Below is a picture of the problem. It seems to be a dependency error:
I tried manually downloading and installing "talib" but I keep getting failures. (Shown below).
talib\common.c(240): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'ta_libc.h': No such file or directory
error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\VC\\BIN\\x86_amd64\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2
Any Ideas? I tried re-installing both modules and Anaconda. Nothing So far.
Other infos:
Cufflinks version: 0.11.0
Plotly version: 2.0.10
Anaconda version: 3-4.4.0 (But I don't think it have anything to do with it)
Python version: 3.6.1

try installing this version of cufflinks, it eliminated the error for me.
pip install cufflinks==0.8.2

From this link: github.com/mrjbq7/ta-lib#troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
Sometimes installation will produce build errors like this:
func.c:256:28: fatal error: ta-lib/ta_libc.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
This typically means that it can't find the underlying TA-Lib library, a dependency which needs to be installed. On Windows, this could be caused by installing the 32-bit binary distribution of the underlying TA-Lib library, but trying to use it with 64-bit Python.
Windows
Download ta-lib-0.4.0-msvc.zip and unzip to C:\ta-lib
This is a 32-bit release. If you want to use 64-bit Python, you will need to build a 64-bit version of the library.
My Fix
So, for windows, we need a 64-bit version of the library? Luckly I found a lot of modules built for 32 and 64 bits python:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
search for "ta-lib" and click on the module you need (In my case cp36 64 bits).
Then, open the command prompt.
Change to where you downloaded the file: cd path/to/file
Type: pip install NameOfFile (in my case pip install TA_Lib‑0.4.10‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl )
Now the 64-bits Ta-Lib module should be installed in your machine. I tested the previous line of codes and it worked!
Thanks for the help :)

I have now removed all dependencies on talib. All studies are pure python based now and you should not face any of this errors.

I cannot install dipy library for python, why ? In the description I explain what I did

I went to http://nipy.org/dipy/installation.html and install nibabel, then I when I wanted to install dipy, there where 2 problems:
Wheel was not built
and vcvarshall.bat not found.
What I did ?
Install Setuptools in site-pakcages
download Setuptools-34.3.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (md5) and save in site-packages
I also try
python setup.py install --compiler=mingw32ç
and
If you get an error saying unable to find vcvarsall.bat then you need to create a file called pydistutils.cfg in notepad and give it the contents
[build]
compiler=mingw32
But setup.py de system it did not find, and I still have vcvarshall.bat not found.
what I need to do?
I am using, Windows 7, Python 3.5.1 and Anaconda 2.5.0 (64 bit)

You will almost certainly find it easier to install third-party packages if you adopt virtual environments. When done correctly you will then not need admin privileges to install packages into virtualenvs. The HitchHikers' Guide to Python contains more information about this.
The vcvarsall.bat is, I believe, a part of the Visual Studio (the Express version is available at no cost) environment. It's required when you are trying to build a compiled Python extension as described in this article. I'm not sure how that will play with mingw.

So, I installed via ANACONDA but , when I go to python, and I want to import dipy it says: No modle named dipy

Solved ! Well I had python 3.5 and dipy has some issues with that version, so I installed Anaconda with python 2.7 , installed visual c++9 and follow the steps on the web !