[SOLVED] Anaconda3 Installation on Ubuntu 21, on Raspberrypi 4

Issue

I am following instructions to teach myself qiskit (Quantum computing developer Kit) from https://qiskit.org/documentation/getting_started.html, which requires Anaconda 3. For this learning exercise I plan to use a RPi4 running Ubuntu 21.X on it. I installed 64-Bit (AWS Graviton2 / ARM64) Installer (413 M). The installation hit a block when at the prompt to initialize conda , I get an error: line 477: 5128 Illegal instruction $PREFIX/bin/conda init which is further described as an open issue here on GitHub.

Would like to know if anyone have had success with Anaconda on RPi4b and even better, have been able to use qiskit on any OS. [I see the mambaforge / mini forge options but I am not sure qiskit is going to be compatible for conda versions provided by mamba/miniforge.]

Thank you.

Solution

You can't use Anaconda installer on RPi4 as it was compiled for AWS Graviton2 architecture.

Have you tried miniforge? It should work fine on RPi4

Answered By - isuruf

Answer Checked By - Candace Johnson (WPSolving Volunteer)