Reputation: 2250

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

Having trouble installing a third party library and I have not seen this error before using Windows 10 with Anaconda installed:

C:\Users\XYZ>conda env create -f python3.6-environment-windows.yml
Collecting package metadata: done
Solving environment: done

Downloading and Extracting Packages
certifi-2018.1.18    | 144 KB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
mkl-2018.0.1         | 155.2 MB  | ############################################################################ | 100%
pytz-2018.9          | 229 KB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
icc_rt-2019.0.0      | 9.4 MB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
icu-58.2             | 21.8 MB   | ############################################################################ | 100%
pip-9.0.1            | 1.7 MB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
xz-5.2.3             | 348 KB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
sip-4.18.1           | 269 KB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
libpng-1.6.36        | 1.3 MB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
vc-14                | 985 B     | ############################################################################ | 100%
numpy-1.14.0         | 3.7 MB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
python-3.6.4         | 17.6 MB   | ############################################################################ | 100%
jpeg-9c              | 314 KB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
wheel-0.30.0         | 85 KB     | ############################################################################ | 100%
wincertstore-0.2     | 13 KB     | ############################################################################ | 100%
freetype-2.9.1       | 475 KB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
scipy-1.0.0          | 13.0 MB   | ############################################################################ | 100%
pyparsing-2.3.1      | 54 KB     | ############################################################################ | 100%
kiwisolver-1.0.1     | 60 KB     | ############################################################################ | 100%
qt-5.6.2             | 55.6 MB   | ############################################################################ | 100%
python-dateutil-2.7. | 218 KB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
vs2015_runtime-14.0. | 1.9 MB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
ca-certificates-2017 | 489 KB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
tk-8.6.7             | 3.5 MB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
setuptools-38.4.0    | 540 KB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
matplotlib-2.2.2     | 6.5 MB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
six-1.12.0           | 21 KB     | ############################################################################ | 100%
openssl-1.0.2n       | 5.4 MB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
pyqt-5.6.0           | 4.5 MB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
zlib-1.2.11          | 236 KB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
tornado-5.1.1        | 665 KB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
sqlite-3.22.0        | 907 KB    | ############################################################################ | 100%
cycler-0.10.0        | 8 KB      | ############################################################################ | 100%
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.

In reference to the instructions here - https://enigma.co/catalyst/install.html#installing-with-conda

Upvotes: 84

Answers (14)

Vincent Yuan

Reputation: 245

You might not be able to alter the base env, for me, I simply switch to the env that I created and it worked without any other modification.

Upvotes: 0

Bilal Mussa

Reputation: 99

I had to do the following steps to get it to work for me

conda update --force conda

This will run and update conda then run the following command

conda update conda

At each stage update all packages. After that, everything should work fine.

Upvotes: 5

Qinjie

Reputation: 1928

For me, deactivating the current conda environment solves the problem, i.e. run conda deactivate before upgrading.

Upvotes: -1

leon young

Reputation: 1029

I had the same problem on Mac Mojave, and in my case run conda update --force conda first worked for me.

Upvotes: 102

Mathews Ming

Reputation: 1

I had solved the problem RemoveError: 'setuptools' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from conda's operating environment.

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As the following way:

pip uninstall setuptools
conda update conda
conda update setuptools

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and then check tools

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I haven't met any mistakes yet, but help me correct my way , if something wrong, please

Upvotes: 0

amine sachiro

Reputation: 11

try conda env create --force -f python3.6-environment-windows.yml I'm not sure exactly where to place it but I use the --force whenever I run into issues like this like conda update --force conda or conda install --force ... use it as last solution since it force conda to perform the command and you might run into some issues later on

Upvotes: 0

longerking

Reputation: 81

conda update --force conda

this worked for me in win64 when I

conda install -c https://conda.anaconda.org/sdvillal openslide-python

Upvotes: 8

Ralph Cowling

Reputation: 2859

Silly point to make here but I've been caught by this before: you may not be in the environment you think you are. Just before killing off any package run a quick check to see:

conda env list

Performing ops on the base environment can cause issues, so you may want to create or change environment.

Upvotes: 5

SaeedM

Reputation: 141

This worked for me on Linux:

Uninstall the package via pip:
```
pip uninstall setuptools
```
Reinstall using the following command:
```
conda install -c anaconda setuptools
```

Consider also that system packages (python3-setuptools, python-setuptools in Ubuntu) might need to be removed.

Upvotes: 13

Priceless words

Reputation: 341

conda update --force conda

will solve : Verifying transaction: failed Remove Error: 'request' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from conda is operating environment.

Upvotes: 19

YonGU

Reputation: 694

running conda update conda before solved the problem for me

Upvotes: 40

pankaj bhagchandani

Reputation: 21

I had the same problem. Try to use the command prompt to install wheel file if you get an error something like this(as shown in picture) then you must install that wheel file:

Extra(how to install wheel file from command prompt):

download wheel file as per the system specifications: -search required file here https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ -e.g. bsddb3 -click bsddb3 and search required file

open command prompt on your system

change the location on the command prompt to: where you have downloaded wheel file e.g C:\Users\Name\Downloads

go to the location, where you have installed python>>go to script>> copy the path (e.g C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\Scripts)

write the command, to install wheel file using pip install (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\Scripts\pip install copy_name_of_the_wheel_file)

run the command

Upvotes: 1

Piotr Dworzynski

Reputation: 56

I ran into the same problem, on macos, after removing all R packages installed by anaconda. Unfortunately, the only solution I found is to reinstall anaconda. Alternatively, you could download miniconda shell script installer, run it with -U option and point the installer at your conda directory. This fixed the issue for me while maintaining settings such as channel priority. However, many of previously installed packages were not importable (Python couldn't find them) and i ended up re-installing all of them.

Upvotes: 1

Paul-Elie Pipelin

Reputation: 42

I had the same problem, which was due to a bad installation of a package (OpenEXR in my case). Try to verify your package with conda list yourPackage. If you find which one it is, prefer installing it with pre-built packages here : https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/.

A stack-overflow thread that helped me : Python 2.7, PIP: "Failed building wheel for ..."

EDIT : Two friends had the same error, one solved it by installing/executing with admin rights. The other one succeeded by creating a new virtual environnement for python.

Upvotes: 1

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