ArcGIS Pro and PiP installs

Question

I need to install selenium to automate an ArcGIS Online workflow. I have Python 3x installed with pro in this path:

C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python

These are the subdirectories:

08/03/2020  09:38 PM    <DIR>          .
08/03/2020  09:38 PM    <DIR>          ..
06/09/2020  02:28 PM                35 .condarc
11/12/2019  11:33 AM                 0 .nonadmin
08/03/2020  09:38 PM    <DIR>          conda-meta
11/12/2019  11:34 AM         6,973,824 cwp.exe
08/03/2020  09:38 PM    <DIR>          DLLs
08/03/2020  09:37 PM    <DIR>          envs
08/03/2020  09:38 PM    <DIR>          Lib
08/03/2020  09:38 PM    <DIR>          pkg-metadata
08/03/2020  09:38 PM    <DIR>          pkgs
08/03/2020  09:38 PM    <DIR>          res
08/03/2020  09:38 PM    <DIR>          Scripts

I've tried setting environmental variables, running setx PATH “%PATH%;C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\Scripts”

And I continue to get an error (pip is not recognized as an internal or external command" when trying to install selenium using pip.

What do I need to do to make pip installs work? Also, is there a place I need to have the selenium and related java sdk files installed to make the pip install work so I can run selenium commands in Python?

Answer 1

That's the path of your root Pro conda environment, it is only used for managing conda environments, there's not even an actual python executable in there, just the conda executable.

Your actual Pro python directory is C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3.

However, this environment is read-only, you cannot install anything in it. To have a writeable environment, you need to make a clone using the ArcGIS Pro Package Manager.

For more information see - https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/arcpy/get-started/what-is-conda.htm