Anaconda3-2023.03-MacOSX-arm64 incompatible with Mac M2 on Ventura

Hey, sure thing! Its alright, I used to get frustrated as well in the beginning. Patience and communities are the key to these struggles. Eventually you'll learn more about the environments that you use and become an expert. We are all here to support each other.

I used this guide, keep it as a reference just in case.

Make sure you install python first before you install anaconda just to be safe.

Here are the steps to install Anaconda on Ventura:

1. Download the anaconda command line installer.
2. Open up a Terminal Window and navigate to the directory where you downloaded your installer. (For example in my case it was in Downloads. So I would type "cd /Users/<yourUser>/Downloads").
3. Run the installer script by running "Bash Anaconda3-2023.03-MacOSX-arm64.sh". (the .sh file you downloaded earlier)
4. The license agreement will show up as you execute the .sh installer, hold "enter" until you reach the end of the agreement and type "yes" to accept it.
5. Once you accept the license agreement, you will be asked to specify the installation location. I would recommend to use the default location. The installation process will begin then, it should take few minutes to complete.
6. The installer will prompt you to initialize Anaconda by running "conda init", enter "yes". (In case you missed the option, run the following command "source /home/<yourUser>/anaconda3/bin/activate" then "conda init zsh"
7. The installer finishes and displays a thank you message.
8. (extra) you can auto-activate anaconda base environment as you open a terminal window by running "conda config --set auto_activate_base True". To turn off the auto activation, use the same command but replace "True" at the end of the command with "False".

You should be all good to go then.

Let me know if you need any further help or if you faced any issue.

This guide will only work on Apple M chip. Since yours is the 2014 model with the intel chip, this will not work. You may not need to go through this whole process if the installer package works. Try downloading the intel installer from anaconda directly and choose the intel option

https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2023.03-1-MacOSX-x86_64.pkg

If the package installer did not work then download the intel variant of the shell file, I've share the link to it below and replicate the steps.

Anaconda3-2023.03-1-MacOSX-x86_64.sh

Hello,

I tried to edit the original reply to add the links but I'm not able to. You can download the .sh one from the link below:

https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2023.03-1-MacOSX-x86_64.sh

My guess would be that .pkg begins with a check condition to validate the type of CPU being used before proceeding with the installation process. They probably did not update it with the new mac M-chips and hence its jumping to the quit section of the .pkg and throwing an incompatible CPU type error.

Yeah I noticed, I just went with the .sh installer and worked fine. The problem seem to be with the universal installer binary only. I'll reach out to Anaconda and raise this issue. Thank you!

You are most welcome! Glad to hear it worked :) and I'm always happy to help and support this awesome community.

Wish you all the best mate!