Anaconda destroys Plasma

I just started my computer. Plasma did not start. I only saw the message “Could not start D-bus. Can you call qdbus-qt5?”. No. I cannot call this! I don’t have a working desktop!

What I managed to do was start a session with a different desktop environment and then search the internet for a solution. Will the error message, you will quickly find that “Anaconda update breaks KDE if it’s added to PATH”. Yes! I installed Anaconda the last time I used this computer! So I removed the lines it had added to my .bashrc and everything worked again.

Note to self: Do not add Anaconda to your PATH. Do not let it edit your .bashrc (which it does when you use conda init). Stupid snake!

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I am a software developr, data scientist, computational linguist, teacher of computer science and above all a huge fan of LaTeX. I use LaTeX for everything, including things you never wanted to do with LaTeX. My latest love is lilypond, aka LaTeX for music. I'll post at irregular intervals about cool stuff, stupid hacks and annoying settings I want to remember for the future.