install issue with python - spacy package in anaconda environment
Question: I'm attempting to follow [this
tutorial](http://honnibal.github.io/spaCy/quickstart.html) to install the
natural language processing package spaCy into a python 3 anaconda
environment, windows 8

I opened console, cd-ed to my site-packages folder, activated environment,
pip-ed for install, everything seemed fine except I couldn't run the second
command here

    
    
    $ pip install spacy
    $ python -m spacy.en.download
    

Now I can successfully load the package but when I run the second line below,
I get the following error

    
    
    >>> from spacy.en import English   #this works
    >>> nlp = English()                #this doesn't
    
    
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\garrett\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\site-packages\spacy\en\__init__.py", line 64, in __init__
        get_lex_props=get_lex_props)
      File "spacy/vocab.pyx", line 42, in spacy.vocab.Vocab.__init__ (spacy/vocab.cpp:2216)
    OSError: Directory C:\Users\garrett\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\site-packages\spacy\en\data\vocab not found -- cannot load Vocab.
    

I think that it is due to the fact that I couldn't run `python -m
spacy.en.download`

**Can anyone give me an idea of what`python -m spacy.en.download` is supposed
to be doing?**

**Can anyone provide a walkthrough for how to get spaCy installed in an
anaconda environment?**

here's the error I get after setting the directory, activating python env,
running command. The first several times I tried, my spyder editor went
unresponsive and I killed the console, the most recent time I got this error

    
    
    $ cd C:\Users\garrett\Anaconda\envs\py3k\Lib\site-packages
    $ C:\Users\garrett\Anaconda\envs\py3k\Lib\site-packages>activate py3k
    $ [py3k] C:\Users\garrett\Anaconda\envs\py3k\Lib\site-packages>python -m spacy.en.download
    
    Moving existing dir C:\Users\garrett\Anaconda\envs\py3k\Lib\site-packages\spacy\en\data to /tmp
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "C:\Users\garrett\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\runpy.py", line 160, in _run_module_as_main
        "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
      File "C:\Users\garrett\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\runpy.py", line 73, in _run_code
        exec(code, run_globals)
      File ".\spacy\en\download.py", line 56, in <module>
        plac.call(main)
      File ".\plac_core.py", line 309, in call
        cmd, result = parser_from(obj).consume(arglist)
      File ".\plac_core.py", line 195, in consume
        return cmd, self.func(*(args + varargs + extraopts), **kwargs)
      File ".\spacy\en\download.py", line 51, in main
        shutil.move(DEST_DIR, '/tmp')
      File "C:\Users\garrett\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\shutil.py", line 521, in move
        raise Error("Destination path '%s' already exists" % real_dst)
    shutil.Error: Destination path '/tmp\data' already exists
    

appreciate any help or advice you can provide


Answer: You have hit [this bug](https://github.com/honnibal/spaCy/issues/41) which
should be already fixed in the last version. Apparently spacy can't download
the data because the destination already exists (may be from a previous
interrupted download). A workaround would be to delete the `/temp/data` folder
and retry the download.

