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anat
anat

Reputation: 143

Downgrade conda on mac not permitted

I am working on mac, trying to downgrade python (from anaconda) from 3.7 to 3.6 and I get an error.

on the terminal, I wrote: conda install python=3.6.8.

Error:

Executing transaction: failed
ERROR conda.core.link:_execute(568): An error occurred while uninstalling package 'defaults::python.app-2-py37_9'.
PermissionError(1, 'Operation not permitted')
Attempting to roll back.

Rolling back transaction: done

[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/Users/../anaconda3/python.app/Contents/PkgInfo' -> '/Users/../anaconda3/python.app/Contents/PkgInfo.c~'

I tried:

sudo env "PATH=$PATH" conda update conda


sudo conda install python=3.6


sudo -H conda update conda


conda update conda

still, get the same error. what can I do?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 390

Answers (1)

Alex.Kh
Alex.Kh

Reputation: 612

To begin with, I would probably execute the conda search python command in the terminal to check out if conda actually sees all Python versions available(which it should be). Afterwards you should try using sudo conda install python=3.6.0 instead of sudo conda install python=3.6. It might help
OR you can simply create a new environment and install a separate Python version thereYou can find the official description here

Upvotes: 2

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