Unable to update Anaconda packages on Ubuntu 17.04

Question

The following message is being displayed whenever I am attempting to update any package with conda update package-name

I have installed Anaconda previously on 16.04 and 16.10 with no such issues.

CondaIOError: IO error: Missing write permissions in: /home/samriddhi/anaconda3
#
# You don't appear to have the necessary permissions to update packages
# into the install area '/home/samriddhi/anaconda3'.
# However you can clone this environment into your home directory and
# then make changes to it.
# This may be done using the command:
#
# $ conda create -n my_root --clone=/home/samriddhi/anaconda3

Answer 1

Though Djokester's answer should work fine, it seems like terrible overkill to me. One could just do:

sudo chown -R username:username anaconda3

Where username is your users name.

Answer 2

This is a very common issue online and I found no solution for it on AskUbuntu or StackOverflow and hence I am posting this answer.

Anaconda comes as a .sh file which is to be installed with the following command

bash Anaconda3-4.3.1-Linux-x86_64.sh

Now even though I have done it before for some reason I added a sudo before this command rendering the anaconda3 folder inaccesible without root permission.

Therefore the conda package management system could not access the directory and hence the issue. If such an issue exists simply delete the previous installation instance with sudo rm -rf anaconda3 and reinstall.

Thanks to George for his valuable comments!