conda 🚀 - RemoveError: 'requests' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from conda's operating environment

Is there any update on this?

vishwesh5 on 30 Jan 2019

I have the exact same problem when I try to upgrade PyTorch

CooperNederhood on 31 Jan 2019

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I have the same on MacOS Mojave, how can I fix this thing??

satrya-sabeni on 31 Jan 2019

Doing 'conda update conda' before it worked for me
conda version : 4.6.2

satrya-sabeni on 31 Jan 2019

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Not sure why conda deleted my comment, but re-opening this since many others have the same issue. I will let someone from the Conda team to close it when there is an appropriate solution.

majeedus on 1 Feb 2019

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RemoveError: 'requests' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from
conda's operating environment.

Same problem on Linux too, creating a new environment is failing with latest version of conda

surajkota on 3 Feb 2019

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I had it with setuptools instead, and updating conda fixed it.

CorentinJ on 5 Feb 2019

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I had the requests dependency error on MacOS with conda v4.6.2, python 3.7.2. I had miniconda installed, not sure if trying to update it with anaconda commands might have caused the error.

Anyways, doing rm -r ~/miniconda3/, removing stuff that conda had installed into ~/.bash_profile and downloading and installing new conda from package worked for me

ejke on 5 Feb 2019

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I had the same issue (and additionally also the same problem for ruamel_yaml). I noticed that somehow in my case requests was installed with pip in my base environment. Is it possible that requests was only recently added as a Conda dependency and that Conda did not force reinstallation through Conda?

I updated the package with pip install --upgrade requests. This installed 2.21.0, which Conda apparently needs. However, it seems to still detect the conda-forge version as a higher version, because conda update conda still fails for me.

egpbos on 13 Feb 2019

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I also tried removing the pip package (pip uninstall requests), after which Conda of course stopped working. I then tried to reinstall/update my Conda installation by simply running the miniconda installer on the same prefix as my existing installation. This unfortunately failed with message

reinstalling: python.app-2-py37_9 ...
cp: /Users/pbos/sw/miniconda3/pythonapp: No such file or directory
ln: ./lib: File exists
Error: post-link failed for: python.app-2-py37_9

After this I gave up and simply reinstalled miniconda.

egpbos on 13 Feb 2019

@satrya-sabeni's fix worked for me (updating conda with conda update conda)

berkeleymalagon on 16 Feb 2019

conda update conda worked for me, but only after deactivating (conda deactivate) out of any current conda environments (including the base conda env)

kunanit on 20 Feb 2019

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conda update conda worked for me too.

rocknamx8 on 7 Mar 2019

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Having the same issue while upgrading to PyTorch. I'll try @rocknamx8 solution and see if it works.

sourcecode369 on 12 Mar 2019

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I had the same problem today, and conda update conda resolved it.

HamedAlemo on 13 Mar 2019

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I hade the same problem, but conda update conda doesn't work

tolikkansk on 26 Mar 2019

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Same problem. "conda update conda" does not work on my machine either. See outcome:

Z:\>conda update conda
Collecting package metadata: done
Solving environment: done

## Package Plan ##

  environment location: C:\Users\hm113045\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3

  added / updated specs:
    - conda


The following packages will be downloaded:

    package                    |            build
    ---------------------------|-----------------
    requests-2.21.0            |        py36_1000          84 KB  conda-forge
    ------------------------------------------------------------
                                           Total:          84 KB

The following NEW packages will be INSTALLED:

  requests           conda-forge/win-64::requests-2.21.0-py36_1000


Proceed ([y]/n)? y


Downloading and Extracting Packages
requests-2.21.0      | 84 KB     | ############################################################################ | 100%
Preparing transaction: done
Verifying transaction: failed

RemoveError: 'requests' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from
conda's operating environment.

matthiastns on 28 Mar 2019

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@matthiastns Doing 'conda update --force conda' worked for me

alekhka on 28 Mar 2019

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@alekhka You are my hero. That solved it for me. Thank you very much.

matthiastns on 29 Mar 2019

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@alekhka is my hero too. this is the only solution that worked for me as well.

bounlu on 2 Apr 2019

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Doing 'conda update --force conda' worked for me

paviomuniz on 3 Apr 2019

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conda update in any form did not work for me and kept throwing similar error "conda create failure--RemoveError: 'setuptools' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from conda's operating environment.

Updating Anaconda Navigator fixed my issue.

ccwgolfer on 10 Apr 2019

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I find those conda update conda answers flawed in one fundamental way; this will force upon you a newer minor version of python, something that's not always responsible within a larger suite of dependencies and considerations.

matanster on 12 Apr 2019

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I tried conda deactivate and then conda update --force conda but still get the error:

RemoveError: 'setuptools' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from
conda's operating environment.

Conda-Version: 4.6.11-py36_0
Mac-OS: 10.14.3

Any further ideas?

krlng on 21 Apr 2019

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Was able to update my conda environemnt after updating the conda navigator using the command line: conda update anaconda-navigator

krlng on 25 Apr 2019

Can confirm this bug persists on OSX. Trying conda update conda and conda update --force conda both did not work. It keeps getting hung up on "inconsistent environment" and both the requests and the setuptools packages being dependencies that cannot be removed from conda's operating environment. Really weird.

Preparing transaction: done
Verifying transaction: failed

RemoveError: 'requests' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from
conda's operating environment.
RemoveError: 'setuptools' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from
conda's operating environment.

cpoptic on 26 Apr 2019

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those two RemoveErrors still persist, and after hours of trying various solutions, I surrendered and try to uninstall Anaconda with Anaconda Clean. Much to my chagrin, conda install anaconda-clean also produces the same RemoveErrors.

Finally surrendered-surrendered and just did rm -rf /anaconda3 . Disappointed being forced into this last resort outcome.

cpoptic on 26 Apr 2019

I'm using pip instead for now, because updating conda itself would upgrade my python to 7.3, which some of my packages won't work well with. This is a weird one, I hope it was specific to a particular version of conda that all of us here have installed.

matanster on 3 May 2019

@matanster wow, can conda really upgrade your python to that high? 😁

bounlu on 3 May 2019

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setuptools is not installed by conda but pip, so you need to uninstall setuptools by pip

pip uninstall setuptools

and reinstall it though conda:

conda install setuptools

eastonYi on 4 May 2019

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Those methods are not work for me.
Try this.
https://support.anaconda.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2419917-recovering-your-anaconda-installation

SamuelXie on 8 May 2019

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try this
https://forums.fast.ai/t/need-root-permissions-to-update-fastai-what-did-i-do-wrong/39663
it works for me

chimouchaima on 9 May 2019

Thanks but not sure how using sudo doesn't introduce a new problem, the new problem being that now your python packages are run as root (what am I missing in that regard?). anyway uninstalling pip didn't work for me.

as to your side note @bounlu, yes it does, not that I want 7.3 actually.

matanster on 9 May 2019

@matanster how? 7.3 is not out yet 😅

bounlu on 10 May 2019

also on Mojave 10.14. I am now unable to add any new conda environments without the error, which follows the notice that it will install setuptools. i also can't update any packages, and my list of inconsistencies has grown tremendously.

RemoveError: 'setuptools' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from
conda's operating environment.

none of the suggestions for updating conda or conda force work.

reneeburton on 14 May 2019

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Preparing transaction: done
Verifying transaction: failed

RemoveError: 'setuptools' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from
conda's operating environment.

(base) C:Usersstonepc>conda config --show-source
==> C:Usersstonepc.condarc <==
ssl_verify: True
channels:

defaults
conda-forge
show_channel_urls: True

(base) C:Usersstonepc>conda deactivate

C:Usersstonepc>conda update conda
Collecting package metadata: |
.................

No luck for me. Still the same RemoveError for setuptools

stonegz on 27 May 2019

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setuptools is not installed by conda but pip, so you need to uninstall setuptools by pip
pip uninstall setuptools
and reinstall it though conda:
conda install setuptools

Great!

gongel on 27 May 2019

The same problem.
Now I can't install or upgrade any package by conda command because of the "setuptools problem".
Maybe reinstall the conda enviroment can fix the problem, you can try it, but for me, I am using a shared server so I can't change it as one pleases.

ghost on 28 May 2019

I got the same issue with setuptools, as of today.

hainm on 31 May 2019

setuptools is not installed by conda but pip, so you need to uninstall setuptools by pip
pip uninstall setuptools
and reinstall it though conda:
conda install setuptools

did NOT work for me, it removes setup tools just fine, but then conda install setuptools fails with the very same error

RemoveError: 'setuptools' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from
conda's operating environment.

otmezger on 31 May 2019

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im using pip instead, hope this issue could be solved, rather than reinstall whole annaconda.

stonegz on 1 Jun 2019

https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/8149#issuecomment-479483339

Conda Version: 4.6.14

I encountered the error RemoveError: 'setuptools' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from conda's operating environment. when running conda env update on an active environment.

I deactivated the environment and tried running conda update --all, but got the same error.

The error was fixed by running conda update --force conda . This successfully ran without the setuptools dependency error. I was able to activate my environment and then update the packages from a .yml file.

colby-vickerson on 4 Jun 2019

Mac OS
Python 3.6.7
Somehow, everything is messed up in my Conda that I can't install any new package. It is driving me crazy lol.

conda update conda does not work.
conda update --force conda does not work.
pip uninstall setuptools does not work.

Keeps getting

RemoveError: 'requests' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from
conda's operating environment.
RemoveError: 'setuptools' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from
conda's operating environment.

PS: tried in base Conda and also deactivate Conda

I re-install/heal the conda at the end. Glad other env is not totally messed.

YubinXie on 5 Jun 2019

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I will be reinstalling too. Wondering if there's a clean uninstall to use first.

matanster on 7 Jun 2019

After reinstalling, this issue happens to me again. Though this time, conda update --force conda works. No idea what is going on...

YubinXie on 7 Jun 2019

@YubinXie it could mean your uninstalling part had left intact leftovers in place on your machine. There should be some uninstallation procedure / command somewhere I guess.

matanster on 7 Jun 2019

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@matanster Yesterday it works fine. I do not think it was due to leftover...

Today I created a new env install and was playing with different version Numpy Matplotlib, and I think it could be triggered by uninstalling package.

YubinXie on 7 Jun 2019

you can try: conda update anaconda

followdao on 18 Jun 2019

when i try conda install -c anaconda setuptools , it works! the code seems to reinstall the dependency.

shiniantianlang on 18 Jun 2019

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@matthiastns Doing 'conda update --force conda' worked for me

Obi-wan has taught you well

gitfann21 on 19 Jun 2019

I ran into this when trying to uninstall pytorch.

I tried everything listed above:

conda deactivate
conda update conda # fail
conda update --force conda # fail
pip uninstall setuptools # not installed with pip
conda install setuptools # fail
conda install -c anaconda setuptools # fail

Every time I get: RemoveError: 'setuptools' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from conda's operating environment.

So I will be completely uninstalling and reinstalling Anaconda.

kylemcdonald on 27 Jun 2019

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@kylemcdonald I have the same feeling that the issues are caused by uninstalling packages.

YubinXie on 27 Jun 2019

I think the operation do not find the setuptools. You can try conda install setuptools first. It works for me.

Ddd1101 on 27 Jun 2019

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when i try conda install -c anaconda setuptools , it works! the code seems to reinstall the dependency.

This worked for me, thanks

ianbroad on 28 Jun 2019

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I have the same problem and also try everything above and also not working.
Finally, I remove the aconda-navigator and re-install and update conda . and problem solve.

wizcap on 5 Jul 2019

I'm on macOS and conda install -c anaconda setuptools did indeed work after everything else (haven't tried reinstalling conda itself yet) failed. Thanks!

phdoerfler on 8 Jul 2019

$ conda update --force conda                                                                                                                  1


WARNING: The --force flag will be removed in a future conda release.
         See 'conda update --help' for details about the --force-reinstall
         and --clobber flags.


Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: /
The environment is inconsistent, please check the package plan carefully
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NightMachinary on 8 Jul 2019

👍4

I had the same problem with setuptools while installing pylint. I could fix it while using a combination of a couple of suggestions from here. This is what I did:

(my environment) pip uninstall setuptools
if setuptools installed in base: (base) pip uninstall setuptools
(base) conda install -c anaconda setuptools
(base) conda update --force conda
(my environment) conda install -c anaconda setuptools
(my environment) conda install -c anaconda pylint

TobiWo on 11 Jul 2019

👍3 🎉2

@NightMachinary did you have your solution? I face the same problem on Google Virtual Machine with its default anaconda. It's suck to have to copy my data to a new instance, because if I snapshot the disk, the faulty conda will move along as well.

lkhphuc on 11 Jul 2019

conda install -c anaconda setuptools

worked for me! The rest did not! Miniconda install, after playing with pip install pyqt5

ks00x on 12 Jul 2019

conda install -c anaconda setuptools
conda update --force conda
both do not work for me.
Any other solution?

couragelfyang on 14 Jul 2019

👍1

I deleted conda’s directory and reinstalled.

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NightMachinary on 14 Jul 2019

@matthiastns Doing 'conda update --force conda' worked for me

Hi. I was facing the "setuptools" problem as others, and I tried your solution. But now my anaconda is messed up badly. No command starting with "conda" works, and I keep getting the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda\exceptions.py", line 1043, in __call__
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main.py", line 84, in _main
    exit_code = do_call(args, p)
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\conda_argparse.py", line 80, in do_call
    module = import_module(relative_mod, __name__.rsplit('.', 1)[0])
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 677, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 728, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main_list.py", line 14, in <module>
    from ..core.prefix_data import PrefixData
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda\core\prefix_data.py", line 24, in <module>
    from ..gateways.disk.create import write_as_json_to_file
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda\gateways\disk\create.py", line 17, in <module>
    import conda_package_handling.api
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda_package_handling\api.py", line 3, in <module>
    from libarchive.exception import ArchiveError as _LibarchiveArchiveError
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\libarchive\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .entry import ArchiveEntry
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\libarchive\entry.py", line 6, in <module>
    from . import ffi
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\libarchive\ffi.py", line 27, in <module>
    libarchive = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(libarchive_path)
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 434, in LoadLibrary
    return self._dlltype(name)
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 356, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Anaconda\Scripts\conda-script.py", line 12, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main.py", line 150, in main
    return conda_exception_handler(_main, *args, **kwargs)
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda\exceptions.py", line 1335, in conda_exception_handler
    return_value = exception_handler(func, *args, **kwargs)
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda\exceptions.py", line 1046, in __call__
    return self.handle_exception(exc_val, exc_tb)
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda\exceptions.py", line 1090, in handle_exception
    return self.handle_unexpected_exception(exc_val, exc_tb)
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda\exceptions.py", line 1101, in handle_unexpected_exception
    self.print_unexpected_error_report(error_report)
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda\exceptions.py", line 1171, in print_unexpected_error_report
    from .cli.main_info import get_env_vars_str, get_main_info_str
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main_info.py", line 19, in <module>
    from ..core.index import _supplement_index_with_system
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda\core\index.py", line 9, in <module>
    from .package_cache_data import PackageCacheData
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda\core\package_cache_data.py", line 15, in <module>
    from conda_package_handling.api import InvalidArchiveError
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda_package_handling\api.py", line 7, in <module>
    from .tarball import CondaTarBZ2 as _CondaTarBZ2
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda_package_handling\tarball.py", line 7, in <module>
    import libarchive
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\libarchive\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .entry import ArchiveEntry
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\libarchive\entry.py", line 6, in <module>
    from . import ffi
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\libarchive\ffi.py", line 27, in <module>
    libarchive = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(libarchive_path)
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 434, in LoadLibrary
    return self._dlltype(name)
  File "D:\Anaconda\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 356, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found

I'd be glad if anyone can help me fix this problem. Thanks.

arashmath on 15 Jul 2019

First, make sure that you don't just have a library load problem. The SSL and MKL sections here also apply to libarchive, which some of the posted messages are showing: https://conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/troubleshooting.html

If things really are broken, sometimes it helps to download miniconda and install it over the current installation. You may lose your command history, but you'll restore conda. Force install instructions are at https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/silent-mode/

msarahan on 15 Jul 2019

❤1

For me I uninstall the setuptools by pip outside the environment.
/disk1/home/wangbx/anaconda3/bin/pip uninstall setuptools
But after that

conda update conda
conda update --force conda

still does not work.
But conda install -c anaconda setuptools works well~

But there is still tens of packages that are inconsistent

The following packages are causing the inconsistency:

  - defaults/linux-64::pytest-doctestplus==0.3.0=py37_0
  - anaconda/linux-64::caffe-gpu==1.0=py37h999e8d7_5
  - defaults/linux-64::tensorboard==1.14.0=py37hf484d3e_0
  - defaults/linux-64::cython==0.29.6=py37he6710b0_0
  - defaults/linux-64::pytest==4.3.1=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::numpydoc==0.8.0=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::pytest-remotedata==0.3.1=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::nbformat==4.4.0=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::seaborn==0.9.0=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::conda-build==3.17.8=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::anaconda-navigator==1.9.7=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::sphinx==1.8.5=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::clyent==1.2.2=py37_1
  - defaults/linux-64::spyder==3.3.3=py37_0
  - defaults/noarch::tensorflow-estimator==1.14.0=py_0
  - defaults/linux-64::jupyter==1.0.0=py37_7
  - defaults/linux-64::dask==1.1.4=py37_1
  - defaults/linux-64::wheel==0.33.1=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::pygments==2.3.1=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::jinja2==2.10=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::jupyterlab==0.35.4=py37hf63ae98_0
  - defaults/linux-64::ipykernel==5.1.0=py37h39e3cac_0
  - defaults/linux-64::spyder-kernels==0.4.2=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::tensorflow==1.14.0=mkl_py37h45c423b_0
  - defaults/linux-64::_ipyw_jlab_nb_ext_conf==0.1.0=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::astroid==2.2.5=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::jupyterlab_server==0.2.0=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::keras==2.2.4=0
  - defaults/linux-64::flask==1.0.2=py37_1
  - defaults/linux-64::jsonschema==3.0.1=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::bokeh==1.0.4=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::nbconvert==5.4.1=py37_3
  - defaults/linux-64::conda-verify==3.1.1=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::jupyter_console==6.0.0=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::isort==4.3.16=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::matplotlib==3.0.3=py37h5429711_0
  - defaults/linux-64::tensorflow-base==1.14.0=mkl_py37h7ce6ba3_0
  - defaults/linux-64::pylint==2.3.1=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::ipywidgets==7.4.2=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::prompt_toolkit==2.0.9=py37_0
  - anaconda/linux-64::protobuf==3.8.0=py37he6710b0_0
  - defaults/linux-64::widgetsnbextension==3.4.2=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::astropy==3.1.2=py37h7b6447c_0
  - defaults/linux-64::nose==1.3.7=py37_2
  - defaults/linux-64::pytest-arraydiff==0.3=py37h39e3cac_0
  - defaults/linux-64::grpcio==1.16.1=py37hf8bcb03_1
  - defaults/linux-64::scikit-image==0.14.2=py37he6710b0_0
  - defaults/linux-64::pytest-openfiles==0.3.2=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::notebook==5.7.8=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::networkx==2.2=py37_1
  - defaults/linux-64::anaconda-client==1.7.2=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::anaconda-project==0.8.2=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::qtconsole==4.4.3=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::ipython==7.4.0=py37h39e3cac_0
  - defaults/linux-64::markdown==3.1.1=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::pytest-astropy==0.5.0=py37_0
  - defaults/linux-64::bleach==3.1.0=py37_0
done

Animadversio on 18 Jul 2019

👍3

None of the above solutions worked for me. What's going on with conda these days?

wandonye on 21 Jul 2019

👀1

Setuptools issues might have been related to this: https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/9014

Can't speak for requests and the others, though. That may be bad interaction with pip-installed stuff, but without a simple reproducible test case, it's impossible to say.

msarahan on 30 Jul 2019

What's going on with conda these days?

We have changed the solving behavior pretty dramatically recently. We also added a new library dependency, libarchive, which in turn has other library dependencies. More can go wrong. We certainly don't like the instability, but it is improving and we think the speed is worth it.

https://www.anaconda.com/understanding-and-improving-condas-performance/
https://www.anaconda.com/how-we-made-conda-faster-4-7/
https://www.anaconda.com/why-we-removed-the-free-channel-in-conda-4-7/

msarahan on 30 Jul 2019

@msarahan Thank you for working on it, and I feel sorry for you to receive hostile comments...

Conda has a huge number of users, and it is really important for everyone's work. It being broken is really frustrating and could drive ppl crazy. I felt upset when it was broken. But I think it is unfair to blame you on these issues... Thank you for your contribution and hope you do not get upset by these comments...

YubinXie on 30 Jul 2019

im using pip instead, hope this issue could be solved, rather than reinstall whole annaconda.

At long last, i have to delete current installations and reinstall miniconda instead. Problem solved, and i can use conda install now.

stonegz on 4 Aug 2019

Ensure your setuptools has uninstalled and try more with conda update --force conda.

Beam-wi on 19 Aug 2019

After running conda update --force conda, whenever I run conda update, I got such errors:

conda update --all
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/gateways/connection/__init__.py", line 21, in <module>
    from requests import ConnectionError, HTTPError, Session
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/exceptions.py", line 1062, in __call__
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/cli/main.py", line 84, in _main
    exit_code = do_call(args, p)
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/cli/conda_argparse.py", line 80, in do_call
    module = import_module(relative_mod, __name__.rsplit('.', 1)[0])
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 677, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 728, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/cli/main_update.py", line 8, in <module>
    from .install import install
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/cli/install.py", line 19, in <module>
    from ..core.index import calculate_channel_urls, get_index
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/core/index.py", line 9, in <module>
    from .package_cache_data import PackageCacheData
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/core/package_cache_data.py", line 17, in <module>
    from .path_actions import CacheUrlAction, ExtractPackageAction
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/core/path_actions.py", line 30, in <module>
    from ..gateways.connection.download import download
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/gateways/connection/__init__.py", line 38, in <module>
    from pip._vendor.requests import ConnectionError, HTTPError, Session
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip._vendor'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/gateways/connection/__init__.py", line 21, in <module>
    from requests import ConnectionError, HTTPError, Session
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/bin/conda", line 13, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/cli/main.py", line 150, in main
    return conda_exception_handler(_main, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/exceptions.py", line 1354, in conda_exception_handler
    return_value = exception_handler(func, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/exceptions.py", line 1065, in __call__
    return self.handle_exception(exc_val, exc_tb)
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/exceptions.py", line 1109, in handle_exception
    return self.handle_unexpected_exception(exc_val, exc_tb)
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/exceptions.py", line 1120, in handle_unexpected_exception
    self.print_unexpected_error_report(error_report)
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/exceptions.py", line 1190, in print_unexpected_error_report
    from .cli.main_info import get_env_vars_str, get_main_info_str
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/cli/main_info.py", line 19, in <module>
    from ..core.index import _supplement_index_with_system
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/core/index.py", line 9, in <module>
    from .package_cache_data import PackageCacheData
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/core/package_cache_data.py", line 17, in <module>
    from .path_actions import CacheUrlAction, ExtractPackageAction
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/core/path_actions.py", line 30, in <module>
    from ..gateways.connection.download import download
  File "/home/phil/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/gateways/connection/__init__.py", line 38, in <module>
    from pip._vendor.requests import ConnectionError, HTTPError, Session
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip._vendor'

pc2005 on 26 Aug 2019

Caution for Python 2.x user: if you will try to update conda, it is highly likely that it will update Python 2.7 to Python 3.x. So, check for following like like line before your proceed:

  python                pkgs/main::python-2.7.15-h9bab390_6 --> conda-forge::python-3.7.3-
h33d41f4_1

To avoid it, use the following command:
conda install conda python=2.7

girishponkiya on 27 Aug 2019

I had the same issue. Solved with the help of this article. Saved all the previous environments. Hope it helps others too!!

InzamamAnwar on 20 Sep 2019

This one worked for me
conda update -n base -c defaults conda --force
(I tried everything proposed here before)

JoaquinKeller on 28 Sep 2019

👍3 😄1

This one worked for me
conda update -n base -c defaults conda --force
(I tried everything proposed here before)

worked for me after tried all others
conda update -n base -c defaults conda --force

iurnah on 3 Oct 2019

👍3

The only thing that worked for me to update a fresh miniconda install was:

conda update -y -n base conda setuptools

Otherwise it would always remove but not reinstall setuptool in the package plan.

buhrmann on 16 Oct 2019

👍3 😄1

To solve this problem
Try This:

conda update conda (if fail)
conda update --force conda (if fail)
This will work for sure 💯
conda update anaconda-navigator (This worked for me).

munnam77 on 21 Oct 2019

👍5

If conda update conda or conda update --force conda don't work for you (which is my case), try to install a clean conda package.

Steps:

go to miniconda page: https://conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html
select the right installer, download, install
it will ask you if you want to initialize conda environment, select yes
then create a new environment should work fine

xiaoyongzhu on 29 Oct 2019

conda update --force conda
works for me after try almost all commands above
but I am not sure whether other issues will occur

redbearder on 6 Nov 2019

I had the same problem with setuptools while installing pylint. I could fix it while using a combination of a couple of suggestions from here. This is what I did:

(my environment) pip uninstall setuptools

if setuptools installed in base: (base) pip uninstall setuptools

(base) conda install -c anaconda setuptools

(base) conda update --force conda

(my environment) conda install -c anaconda setuptools

(my environment) conda install -c anaconda pylint

Thanks @TobiWo this has worked for me too. Great answer instad of just writing

conda update conda worked for me

keep on going.

yeroslaviz on 8 Nov 2019

Doing 'conda update conda' before it worked for me
conda version : 4.6.2

Thanks, it also worked for me

sanjayzzzhong on 14 Nov 2019

This worked for me (conda update conda did not - same error):
conda update -n base -c defaults conda --force
And I was dismayed to see:

WARNING: The --force flag will be removed in a future conda release.
         See 'conda update --help' for details about the --force-reinstall
         and --clobber flags.

since adding --force seems to be the only thing that works. Maybe future versions won't have this issue?

I had been seeing this suggestion when I had tried conda update conda:

==> WARNING: A newer version of conda exists. <==
  current version: 4.7.11
  latest version: 4.7.12

Please update conda by running

    $ conda update -n base conda

But the suggestion there resulted in the same error as well.

hepcat72 on 5 Dec 2019

👍2

conda update -n base -c defaults conda --force

appears to work for me too

alexbockman on 3 Jan 2020

👍7 🎉1

sudo conda update -n base -c defaults conda --force

After trying everything at last the above command worked

teckwanikaran on 14 Jan 2020

sudo conda update -n base -c defaults conda --force

DO NOT RUN THIS! You will install python 3.8 and can destroy everything!

also using sudo will ruin things because you might be forced to do sudo pip install every time you install anything in the future

veqtor on 15 Jan 2020

👍2

sudo conda update -n base -c defaults conda --force

DO NOT RUN THIS! You will install python 3.8 and can destroy everything!

also using sudo will ruin things because you might be forced to do sudo pip install every time you install anything in the future

@veqtor I ran the following set of commands:

I made sure that my environment was conda base
sudo conda update -n base -c defaults conda --force
conda update --all
conda clean --all
python --version

my python version is still Python 3.7.3

After your comment to check if everything is alright I tried to install the library called modin and by just doing pip install modin it worked.

Long story short my experience is different than what you are recommending. Therefore all the folks out there if you are trying my fix, DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.

teckwanikaran on 15 Jan 2020

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I think all @veqtor means is, don't put sudo in front of the command. It's unnecessary (assuming you haven't already set things up in the past using sudo). I ran the same command without sudo and it worked - and it was the only thing that worked which has been suggested in this thread.

hepcat72 on 15 Jan 2020

@hepcat72 I can see his point of not running the command with sudo. However, in my case, if I execute it without adding sudo then It was giving the same error as mentioned in the title.

teckwanikaran on 15 Jan 2020

I'm not a conda expert, but I suspect something else is going on with your environment, such as having used sudo in the past for other conda config/installs, making sudo necessary now.

hepcat72 on 15 Jan 2020

I fixed the sudo-caused mess by chmoding my anaconda files to set write privileges for my user.
"sudo conda update -n base -c defaults conda --force" also ended up installing python 3.8 (breaking a lot of other stuff) but somehow fixed not being able to install the package I needed, I reinstalled python 3.6 using conda install and that restored it.

veqtor on 16 Jan 2020

Run the below command in Anaconda Prompt (Run as administrator)..it worked for me. This command will resolve above conflict of verification failed.. And afterwards you can install whichever package you wish. I have received above error when I was installing Spacy.

conda update -n base -c defaults conda

If you want to install spacy afterwards use below commands:

Run the below command in Anaconda Prompt (Run as administrator)

conda install -c conda-forge spacy

pseudoGal on 3 Feb 2020

I solved this problem.
Actually, avoid above all's solution.
I tried to all method on solutions but not working.

This is finally choice.
Just reinstall anaconda.
I did reinstall anaconda and it works well right now.

ps. There is a point where it is assumed to be a problem.
It is thought that the problem of path part occurred by repeating the pipe installation not only in the duplication of path setting of python and conda and virtual environment but also in non-virtual environment.

It takes a lot of effort to modify this pass setting, and I hope to find peace through re-installation unless I have a lot of time.

RaviKim on 4 Feb 2020

😄3

just you need to make an update to you coda,first:
1/open your anaconda prompt.
2/write this line of command: conda update conda
3/press enter

and the problem should be done "ان شاء الله"

thank you.

karim-GPU on 6 Feb 2020

👍2 👎1

Having the same issue while Installing keras. I'll try @rocknamx8 solution and see if it works.

But it doesn't work.

lopeselio on 13 Feb 2020

@alekhka thank u very much

BOOM5s on 14 Feb 2020

This one worked for me
conda update -n base -c defaults conda --force
(I tried everything proposed here before)

worked for me after tried all others
conda update -n base -c defaults conda --force

It worked for me.

youpip on 21 Mar 2020

In the end , "conda update anaconda-navigator" worked for me,
but "conda update conda" didn't.

jeanru on 24 Mar 2020

conda update -n base -c defaults conda --force

appears to work for me too

Worked for me as well (running Linux Mint on AMD).
Cheers!

carbonlkg on 15 Apr 2020

@alekhka's solution worked for me.

davidjmayer on 15 Apr 2020

sudo conda update -n base -c defaults conda --force

After trying everything at last the above command worked

worked for me.

it will not update Python to 3.8 because it uses the "defaults" channels.

magicnight on 16 Apr 2020

wow @alekhka , thank you so much

chandanmalla on 17 Apr 2020

conda update -n base -c defaults conda --force

worked for me.

dangwg on 22 Apr 2020

👍3 😄2

None of the above worked for me but this did:
conda uninstall setuptools
conda update --force conda
conda install setuptools

julianhansen on 22 May 2020

👍2 🚀1 ❤1

conda update --force --all worked for me.

mecitpmk on 27 May 2020

👍3

I got similar RemoveError: 'conda_package_handling' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed ... .
It happen during "conda update --all". Error reported immediately after prompt to update 'conda_package_handling'. I did fix it somehow using: 'conda update conda --force-reinstall'. I have: conda version : 4.8.3, conda-build version : 3.18.11, python version : 3.7.7.final.0

_Also I did scan metadata for package version mismatches and I found something suspicious: different versions in Anaconda metadata for the same package and all of them from Anaconda and 'conda-package-handling' is there. Maybe it is not a problem, but it looks suspicious..._

d:\My\ProPy>py pico\metascan.py -p
Act: d:\InstSoft\Python\Conda3x64\condabin\conda.bat activate
Run: d:\InstSoft\Python\Conda3x64\Python.exe
Arg: pico\metascan.py -p
 --- Scan metadata for version mismatch ---
Prefix: d:\InstSoft\Python\Conda3x64
LibSP : d:\InstSoft\Python\Conda3x64\Lib\site-packages
conda-meta : d:\InstSoft\Python\Conda3x64\conda-meta
pkgs  : d:\InstSoft\Python\Conda3x64\pkgs
Version Mix:
  ['anaconda_project', '0.8.3', 'dist-info', 'LibSP']
  ['anaconda-project', '0.8.4', 'py_0', 'conda-meta']
  ['anaconda-project', '0.8.4', 'py_0', 'pkgs']
Version Mix:
  ['conda_package_handling', '1.7.0', 'dist-info', 'LibSP']
  ['conda-package-handling', '1.6.1', 'py37h62dcd97_0', 'conda-meta']
  ['conda-package-handling', '1.6.1', 'py37h62dcd97_0', 'pkgs']
Version Mix:
  ['setuptools', '46.4.0.post20200518', 'py3.7', 'egg-info', 'LibSP']
  ['setuptools', '46.4.0', 'py37_0', 'conda-meta']
  ['setuptools', '46.4.0', 'py37_0', 'pkgs']
Version mix in metadata for 3 package(s)
d:\My\ProPy>

vx1920 on 31 May 2020

Doing 'conda update --force conda' worked for me

This worked for me.

sunandabansal on 10 Aug 2020

it was really frustrating to spend the whole day trying to fix this. I've tried all the solutions posted above but no one worked.
IMHO: Give it a try to a few solutions but if they don't work... face it, reinstall Anaconda

leonardorocc0 on 16 Aug 2020

I found an alternative way to overcome this problem without declaring conda bankruptcy (something I've done several times in the past...)

The cause of this issue was that I'd for some reason removed requests and installed it with pip. This jammed up a lot of conda commands because it wanted to replace requests with the one from the conda-forge channel, but couldn't remove it since it raised a RemoveError. I tracked the error down with grep -RI RemoveError $CONDA_PREFIX/lib/, opened the file ($CONDA_PREFIX/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/core/link.py), and manually suppressed the error by commenting it out and replacing it with pass. After reinstalling requests with conda install -c conda-forge requests, I undid my changes and everything was fine.

As an aside, I'd recommend adding a warning to novices not to use the base env for anything. Most of my conda troubles have come from ignoring this; it's often uniquely hard to fix things in base, and it can't easily be cloned or nuked and redone without totally starting afresh.

josh-friedlander-kando on 17 Aug 2020

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and manually suppressed the error by commenting it out and replacing it with pass

Where did you insert passand what exactly did you comment out?

RobbieTheK on 17 Aug 2020

Where did you insert passand what exactly did you comment out?

Yes, sorry. Here's the change. Original:
$CONDA_PREFIX/lib/python3.7/site-packages/conda/core/link.py line 548

        if conda_final_prefix in prefix_setups:
            for conda_dependency in conda_linked_depends:
                dep_name = MatchSpec(conda_dependency).name
                if dep_name not in pkg_names_being_lnkd and (
                        dep_name not in pkg_names_already_lnkd or
                        dep_name in pkg_names_being_unlnkd):
                    yield RemoveError("'%s' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from\n"
                                      "conda's operating environment." % dep_name)

and I changed it to:

        if conda_final_prefix in prefix_setups:
            for conda_dependency in conda_linked_depends:
                dep_name = MatchSpec(conda_dependency).name
                if dep_name not in pkg_names_being_lnkd and (
                        dep_name not in pkg_names_already_lnkd or
                        dep_name in pkg_names_being_unlnkd):
                    pass

josh-friedlander-kando on 17 Aug 2020

     dep_name in pkg_names_being_unlnkd):
                pass

Thanks had to remember the spacing.

Unfortunately I'm still getting:

The following packages are causing the inconsistency:

  - defaults/linux-64::anaconda==2019.07=py37_0

Any fix for that?

RobbieTheK on 17 Aug 2020

Can you share the rest of the error message?

josh-friedlander-kando on 17 Aug 2020

Can you share the rest of the error message?

conda update anaconda
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: -
Found conflicts! Looking for incompatible packages.                                                                         failed with repodata from current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source.
Solving environment: -
Found conflicts! Looking for incompatible packages.
This can take several minutes.  Press CTRL-C to abort.                                                                      failed with repodata from current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source.
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: \
The environment is inconsistent, please check the package plan carefully
The following packages are causing the inconsistency:

  - defaults/linux-64::anaconda==2019.07=py37_0                                                                             done

## Package Plan ##

  environment location: /usr/local/bin/anaconda3

  added / updated specs:
    - anaconda

This time in ran successfully however it ended with this:

The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:

  anaconda                                   2019.07-py37_0 --> custom-py37_1
  lzo                                       2.10-h49e0be7_2 --> 2.10-h7b6447c_2
  pycosat                              0.6.3-py37h14c3975_0 --> 0.6.3-py37h7b6447c_0

So I have:

conda -V
conda 4.8.4
python -V
Python 3.7.3

At least pip/pip3 aren't broken any more. But my goal is to update conda and get Python upgrade to 3.8.

Side note:

pipconflictchecker
--------------------------------------------------
 Conflicts Detected
--------------------------------------------------
 - docutils(0.16) botocore(>=0.10,<0.15)

RobbieTheK on 17 Aug 2020

I wouldn't try to upgrade the Python version in an existing virtual env, especially not base. Easier to create a new one with conda create --name py38 python=3.8, no?

josh-friedlander-kando on 17 Aug 2020

Easier to create a new one with conda create --name py38 python=3.8, no?

OK like mentioned here,

What brought this up was trying to get ROS (robotics OS) to run on Fedora and having the colcon build command fail when running into the old libssh/OpenSSL libraries and getting a slew of undefined references..

So once I active Python 3.8, I'm hoping this should be fixed?

RobbieTheK on 17 Aug 2020

Yikes. Probably not! I don't know much about any of that stuff but I doubt which conda virtualenv you're in affects it. You could try to conda remove libuuid but I'd guess it happens higher up, with your shell's environment variables. Also we're pretty far off topic here so I'd suggest continuing this discussion on a more relevant thread...

josh-friedlander-kando on 17 Aug 2020

Tried conda update --force conda and did not work... furthermore was unable to try any other proposed fixes and am now having to reinstall anaconda.

FortesFortunaAdiuvat on 22 Aug 2020

conda deactivate
conda update --force conda

This worked for me.

leitc on 25 Aug 2020

👍2

Tried conda deactivate and conda update --force conda and did not work... furthermore was unable to try any other proposed fixes and am now having to reinstall anaconda. And also note, every try took a couple of hours

xsqian on 1 Sep 2020

I had this when trying to conda install nltk

conda update conda ran but did not solve the issue

I 'solved' it by using pip install nltk

I've been using miniconda.

ptcane on 22 Sep 2020

I was trying to update my (8 mo. old) miniconda3 installation, and ended up tried just about everything, except hacking/editing code (already a bad idea), and nothing worked, except for the following.

3 hours later:

# Remove index cache, lock files, unused cache packages, and tarballs.
conda clean -a -vv
conda deactivate

#--------------------------------------------------------
# Fixing the conda update problem
#--------------------------------------------------------
# -c CHANNEL
#   Additional channel to search for packages. These are
#   URLs searched in the order they are given (including
#   file:// for local directories). Then, the defaults or
#   channels from .condarc are searched (unless
#   --override-channels is given). You can use 'defaults'
#   to get the default packages for conda. You can also
#   use any name and the .condarc channel_alias value will
#   be prepended. The default channel_alias is
#   http://conda.anaconda.org/.
# 
# -n ENVIRONMENT
#--------------------------------------------------------
conda update -y -n base -c defaults conda --force
conda activate
conda update -y --force conda

pip list -o

# This will still show these as outdated but OK..
#------------------------------------------------
# Package     Version             Latest  Type
# ----------- ------------------- ------- -----
# ruamel-yaml 0.15.87             0.16.12 wheel
# setuptools  49.6.0.post20200814 50.3.0  wheel
#------------------------------------------------

pip install -U setuptools
conda deactivate

# Remove any files related to "ruamel-yaml":
# WARNING: Recursive removal, so don't fuck this up!
cd $env:_CONDA_ROOT
gci -r -fi "ruamel*" | ForEach-Object { rm -Recurse -Force $_ }

#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# IMPORTANT! 
# Now when conda doesn't work, it does something to the environment 
# variables, or perhaps simply kicks you out of the (base).
# In my case it ended up switching the python/pip interpreter, because 
# I have 2 installed. Make sure you're on your original one. 
# In my case it was 3.7, so I had to check it is using the right pip
# version and it's on the right path.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
pip3.7 -V
# Correct output should be:
# pip 20.2.3 from c:\users\<username>\miniconda3\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.7)

pip3.7.exe install ruamel-yaml
conda activate
# ok

ALL GOOD!
:champagne: :heart:

eabase on 25 Sep 2020

conda update --force-reinstall conda worked for me

bounlu on 17 Nov 2020

conda update --force-reinstall conda

Thank You, I was struggling for days. . . . . . jus your line made it easy, now everything got updated and working fine . . . : )

naveensk23 on 21 Nov 2020

@bounlu
@naveensk23

Perhaps you can tell us why this is better or how it's different from just removing conda and re-installing it?

eabase on 22 Nov 2020

I was afraid of losing all the environments which I have been worked for the last year, So I really tried my best not to uninstall the anaconda and I wanted to retain all the Env. I tried various options to remove the dependency error.. . Nothing actually worked. At last conda update --force-reinstall conda did work and I was able to retain all my previous conda Env s. now everything working absolutely fine . . . . .

naveensk23 on 22 Nov 2020

👍1

@matthiastns Doing 'conda update --force conda' worked for me

works well for me, too. Thanks.

xu-kai-xu on 23 Nov 2020

To update from 4.8.5 I had to do both:

conda update --force-reinstall conda
conda update -n base -c defaults conda

eabase on 13 Dec 2020

Conda: RemoveError: 'requests' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from conda's operating environment

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