Conda package installations fail on new conda installation

[ARF1]

Issue Type: Bug

Possibly related to #5503.

Attempting to install an anaconda package from within vscode fails. Executing the same command from the anaconda shell works.

Windows PowerShell
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PS Z:\myproj> Z:/Miniconda3/Scripts/activate
PS Z:\myproj> conda activate myenviron
conda : The term 'conda' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, 
verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ conda activate myenviron
+ ~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (conda:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
 
PS Z:\myproj> & Z:/Miniconda3/Scripts/conda.exe install --name myenviron rope
Collecting package metadata: failed

CondaHTTPError: HTTP 000 CONNECTION FAILED for url <https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch/repodata.json.bz2>
Elapsed: -

An HTTP error occurred when trying to retrieve this URL.
HTTP errors are often intermittent, and a simple retry will get you on your way.

If your current network has https://www.anaconda.com blocked, please file
a support request with your network engineering team.

SSLError(MaxRetryError('HTTPSConnectionPool(host=\'repo.anaconda.com\', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /pkgs/main/noarch/repodata.json.bz2 (Caused by SSLError("Can\'t connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available."))'))


PS Z:\myproj>

Extension version: 2019.4.12954
VS Code version: Code 1.33.1 (51b0b28134d51361cf996d2f0a1c698247aeabd8, 2019-04-11T08:27:14.102Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.17763

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30GHz (4 x 2295)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled checker_imaging: disabled_off flash_3d: enabled flash_stage3d: enabled flash_stage3d_baseline: enabled gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on native_gpu_memory_buffers: disabled_software rasterization: enabled surface_synchronization: enabled_on video_decode: enabled webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
Memory (System)	7.88GB (3.99GB free)
Process Argv
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

[DonJayamanne]

When the Anaconda / Miniconda python distribution is installed with an installer of the current version on Windows, the conda is no longer added to the PATH environment variable.

Yes, however we expect users to setup their powershell environment for conda to start working.
The latest version of conda has instructions on how to do this, i believe the command is conda init.

Closing as we expect users to setup their shells for conda to work.
The extension will no longer attempt to resolve this on behalf of the user.