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jeremy radcliff
jeremy radcliff

Reputation: 1109

conda update anaconda gives "The following packages will be DOWNGRADED due to dependency conflicts"

I was told a while ago to regularly run conda update conda and then conda update anaconda in order to keep everything python related up to date.

Today I ran python -V and got Python 2.7.11 :: Anaconda 4.0.0 (x86_64)

Then when I ran conda update conda, I got: All requested packages already installed.

conda 4.1.11 py27_0

However, when I ran conda update anacond, I got a whole list of pacakges to be DOWNLOADED, packages to be INSTALLED, packages to be UPDATED, and "packages to be DOWNGRADED due to dependency conflicts"

I proceeded (cause why not...), and when I ran python -V afterwards, I got: Python 2.7.10 :: Anaconda 2.3.0 (x86_64), so both python and Anaconda have been downgraded, Anaconda significantly so.

Is this normal or desirable to keep everything consistent? Is there a way to avoid it? Is it really the best thing to run conda update conda and then conda update anaconda every time?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3280

Answers (1)

RZRKAL
RZRKAL

Reputation: 417

I regularly do the same thing and everything is fine till yesterday, when I got the same thing when updating, I don't think it's normal and I think it may have something to do with the new release version.

I tried to re update and it didn't work. I try to force the update by using:

conda install anaconda=4.1.1

But it showed me that the spyder-app has conflicts. Maybe that coul help in your case.

My temporary solution till the conflict is solve, was to run:

conda update --all

which creates a custom version of anaconda with all the packages updated. I will try to update anaconda later and see if I could install the newest version.

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

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