I tried opening Anaconda Navigator as root and it got stuck at "loading applications" and gave this error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/karuna63/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/anaconda_navigator/widgets/main_window.py", line 550, in setup self.post_setup(conda_data=conda_data) File "/home/karuna63/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/anaconda_navigator/widgets/main_window.py", line 587, in post_setup self.tab_home.setup(conda_data) File "/home/karuna63/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/anaconda_navigator/widgets/tabs/home.py", line 171, in setup self.set_applications(applications, packages) File "/home/karuna63/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/anaconda_navigator/widgets/tabs/home.py", line 206, in set_applications apps = self.api.process_apps(applications, prefix=self.current_prefix) File "/home/karuna63/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/anaconda_navigator/api/anaconda_api.py", line 865, in process_apps app = app(config=self.config, process_api=self._process_api) File "/home/karuna63/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/anaconda_navigator/api/external_apps/pycharm.py", line 111, in __init__ super(PyCharmProApp, self).__init__( File "/home/karuna63/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/anaconda_navigator/api/external_apps/pycharm.py", line 15, in __init__ super(BasePyCharmApp, self).__init__( File "/home/karuna63/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/anaconda_navigator/api/external_apps/base.py", line 47, in __init__ self.set_up_app_directory_path() File "/home/karuna63/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/anaconda_navigator/api/external_apps/base.py", line 59, in set_up_app_directory_path self.app_directory_path = self._get_linux_installation_directory() File "/home/karuna63/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/anaconda_navigator/api/external_apps/pycharm.py", line 62, in _get_linux_installation_directory for dir_name in os.listdir(root):
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/opt'

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I had the same issue. You are good to go after creating the opt directory. From your home directory type:

sudo mkdir /opt

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