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I installed Spyder editor with Anaconda. It works perfectly, I only have a question/doubt on the way I can open it.

I can open Spyder form terminal spyder ..., but Ubuntu does not find it among installed applications. Consequently, I cannot open it but from terminal. Whyle I can use nohup spyder & to separate Spyder from the terminal, this behavior seems strange to me. Should I just install a second Spyder through the package manager? Or is this expected to behave differently.

thank you, I guess this relates to possible software in general and hope it can be useful and interesting.

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In the end I found 2 solutions:

1) create a file .desktop https://askubuntu.com/questions/1102899/adding-an-icon-for-spyder-in-favourites-bar-in-ubuntu-18-04

2) open Spyder from terminal with the following function

I defined the following function in my .bashrc. Briefly, in this case, nohup prevents the terminal standard input from reaching Spyder, and redirects Spyder output signals to nohup.out.

To avoid the nohup.out file the function redirects all Spyder output (std output and error) to dev/null. dev/null discharges all it receives, therefore the file nohup.out wont be created, neither in the current directory nor in dev/null.

nopen() {
    nohup "$1" </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &
}

How do I use the nohup command without getting nohup.out?

Peruz
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    instead of package manager try `conda install -c anaconda spyder` , it will automatically compiler spyder in system and u can use it on button click – sahasrara62 Oct 30 '19 at 18:17
  • great, thanks, once I have Spyder in the Anaconda3/bin directory what should I do to launch it? It seems to me that Spyder is there but ubuntu manager does not find it. I believe the question is how to add an external software to the ubuntu software. It is off topic but I ask here to close the question. I would be happy to accept the answer. – Peruz Oct 30 '19 at 19:05
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    https://askubuntu.com/questions/1102899/adding-an-icon-for-spyder-in-favourites-bar-in-ubuntu-18-04 I think the solution is about creating a `.desktop` file for Spyder, the link above and others rated to .desktop discussed the topic. In the end I find my self to just call `nohup spyder &`, but it good to know. – Peruz Oct 31 '19 at 06:46

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