Trouble with Different Python Envrionments, Anaconda and FEniCS

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I had the same problem too. I solved it just by launching the jupyter notebook from a terminal instead of the anaconda navigator GUI which is bugged apparently. see also my post of Oct 18

RuntimeError: Could not find DOLFIN pkg-config file

SOLVED: it is a bug in anaconda navigator. If you launch a jupyter notebook from within Anaconda navigator it does not load the fenicsproject environment variables, even if you launch the jupyter notebook from the fenicsproject environment. Whereas if you launch the jupyter notebook from a terminal where you activate the fenicsproject, the problem disappears and everything works fine: in a terminal simply type (base) MacBook-Pro-de-Pascal:~ pascalazerad$ conda activate fenicsproject (feni…