Trouble updating to Spyder 4.0.0

Question

I am using windows 10,64 bits.

I am trying to update my Spyder IDE to the 4.0.0 version.

I tried with both the anaconda prompt and anaconda navigator but I was not able to update my spyder IDE. I even uninstalled and installed Anaconda and reinstalled it but spyder IDE didn't get updated. 

So I executed anaconda prompt as an administrator and gave the command as below:

conda update spyder

Then gave the below command:

conda install spyder=4.0.0

Prompt responded as:

Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done

Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.

Solving environment: failed with repodata from current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source.

Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done

Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.

Solving environment: |

Found conflicts! Looking for incompatible packages.

This can take several minutes.  Press CTRL-C to abort.

Finding conflicts:   0%|                                                                       | 0/360 [00:00<?, ?it/s]|Examining hpack:  42%|█████████████████████████▌                                   | 151/360 [00:00<00:00, 1468.80it/s]/Examining jupyter_core:  56%|██████████████████████████████▍                       | 203/360 [00:00<00:00, 1468.80it/-

- mparing specs that have this dependency:   0%|                                                | 0/20 [00:00<?, ?it/\

Examining jupyter_core:  57%|██████████████████████████████▌                       | 204/360 [00:20<00:00, 1468.80it/s]|| mparing specs that have this dependency:  10%|████                                    | 2/20 [00:18<02:47,  9.32s/i/ |

Comparing specs that have this dependency:  55%|█████████████████████▍                 | 11/20 [01:07<00:55,  6.16s/i-

Examining tbb:  73%|███████████████████████████████████████████████▎                 | 262/360 [02:35<01:19,  1.24it/s]-Examining jedi:  81%|███████████████████████████████████████████████████▉            | 292/360 [02:35<00:54,  1.24it/- \

Examining jupyter_client:  90%|████████████████████████████████████████████████▍     | 323/360 [06:03<04:23,  7.12s/i\ \

Comparing specs that have this dependency:   7%|██▋                                     | 1/15 [00:10<02:27, 10.51s/i-

Comparing specs that have this dependency:  13%|█████▎                                  | 2/15 [00:21<02:19, 10.73s/i/ |

Comparing specs that have this dependency:  27%|██████████▋                             | 4/15 [00:31<01:25,  7.77s/i\ \

Finding conflict paths:   0%|                                                                    | 0/7 [00:00<?, ?it// -

Comparing specs that have this dependency:  73%|████████████████████████████▌          | 11/15 [01:21<00:29,  7.40s/i\ |

Finding shortest conflict path for jupyter_client[version='>=4.2']:  67%|██████████▋     | 4/6 [00:10<00:01,  1.35it/| -

Comparing specs that have this dependency:  80%|███████████████████████████████▏       | 12/15 [01:34<00:23,  7.91s/i- |

failed                                                                                                                 /

                                                                                                                       \

UnsatisfiableError: The following specifications were found to be incompatible with a past

The explicit spec that is not an explicit spec in this operation (spyder):

  - spyder=4.0.0

The following specifications were found to be incompatible with each other:

Package jedi conflicts for:

spyder=4.0.0 -> python-language-server[version='>=0.31.2,<0.32.0'] -> jedi[version='>=0.14.1,<0.16']

jedi

jupyterlab_server -> notebook -> ipykernel -> ipython[version='>=4.0'] -> jedi[version='>=0.10']

anaconda==2019.10 -> jedi==0.15.1[build='py37_0|py36_0|py27_0']

ipython -> jedi[version='>=0.10']

qtconsole -> ipykernel[version='>=4.1'] -> ipython[version='>=4.0'] -> jedi[version='>=0.10']

_ipyw_jlab_nb_ext_conf -> ipywidgets -> ipython[version='>=4.0.0'] -> jedi[version='>=0.10']

jupyter_console -> ipython -> jedi[version='>=0.10']

spyder-kernels -> ipykernel -> ipython[version='>=4.0'] -> jedi[version='>=0.10']

widgetsnbextension -> notebook[version='>=4.4.1'] -> ipykernel -> ipython[version='>=4.0'] -> jedi[version='>=0.10']

jupyterlab -> notebook[version='>=4.3.1'] -> ipykernel -> ipython[version='>=4.0'] -> jedi[version='>=0.10']

jupyter -> ipykernel -> ipython[version='>=4.0'] -> jedi[version='>=0.10']

spyder=4.0.0 -> qtconsole[version='>=4.6.0'] -> ipykernel[version='>=4.1'] -> ipython[version='>=5.0'] -> jedi[version='>=0.10']

ipywidgets -> ipython[version='>=4.0.0'] -> jedi[version='>=0.10']

notebook -> ipykernel -> ipython[version='>=4.0'] -> jedi[version='>=0.10']

ipykernel -> ipython[version='>=4.0'] -> jedi[version='>=0.10']

anaconda==2019.10 -> spyder==3.3.6=py27_0 -> jedi[version='>=0.10|>=0.9']

spyder=4.0.0 -> jedi=0.14.1

Package jupyter_client conflicts for:

_ipyw_jlab_nb_ext_conf -> jupyterlab -> notebook[version='>=4.3.1'] -> nbconvert -> jupyter_client[version='>=4.2']

widgetsnbextension -> notebook[version='>=4.4.1'] -> nbconvert -> jupyter_client[version='>=4.2']

jupyterlab -> notebook[version='>=4.3.1'] -> nbconvert -> jupyter_client[version='>=4.2']

ipywidgets -> widgetsnbextension[version='>=3.3.0,<3.4.0'] -> notebook[version='>=4.4.1'] -> jupyter_client[version='>=5.2.0|>=5.3.1|>=5.3.4']

jupyterlab_server -> notebook -> jupyter_client[version='>=5.2.0|>=5.3.1|>=5.3.4']

anaconda==2019.10 -> ipykernel==4.10.0=py27_0 -> jupyter_client[version='>=4.1|>=5.2.0|>=5.2.3|>=5.3.1']

jupyter -> ipykernel -> jupyter_client[version='>=4.1|>=4.2|>=5.2.0|>=5.3.1|>=5.3.4']

ipywidgets -> widgetsnbextension[version='>=3.3.0,<3.4.0'] -> notebook[version='>=4.4.1'] -> nbconvert -> jupyter_client[version='>=4.2']

spyder=4.0.0 -> qtconsole[version='>=4.6.0'] -> ipykernel[version='>=4.1'] -> jupyter_client

jupyterlab -> notebook[version='>=4.3.1'] -> jupyter_client[version='>=5.2.0|>=5.3.1|>=5.3.4']

spyder=4.0.0 -> nbconvert -> jupyter_client[version='>=4.1|>=4.2|>=5.3.4']

ipywidgets -> ipykernel[version='>=4.5.1'] -> jupyter_client

anaconda==2019.10 -> jupyter_client==5.3.3[build='py27_1|py36_1|py37_1']

spyder-kernels -> ipykernel -> jupyter_client

jupyter_console -> jupyter_client

spyder-kernels -> jupyter_client[version='>=5.2.3|>=5.3.4']

notebook -> nbconvert -> jupyter_client[version='>=4.2']

jupyter_client

notebook -> jupyter_client[version='>=5.2.0|>=5.3.1|>=5.3.4']

nbconvert -> jupyter_client[version='>=4.2']

_ipyw_jlab_nb_ext_conf -> ipywidgets -> ipykernel[version='>=4.5.1'] -> jupyter_client[version='>=5.2.0|>=5.3.1|>=5.3.4']

jupyterlab_server -> notebook -> nbconvert -> jupyter_client[version='>=4.2']

widgetsnbextension -> notebook[version='>=4.4.1'] -> jupyter_client[version='>=5.2.0|>=5.3.1|>=5.3.4']

ipykernel -> jupyter_client

qtconsole -> ipykernel[version='>=4.1'] -> jupyter_client

qtconsole -> jupyter_client[version='>=4.1']

Package jupyter_core conflicts for:

anaconda==2019.10 -> jupyter_core==4.5.0=py_0

spyder=4.0.0 -> nbconvert -> jupyter_client[version='>=4.2'] -> jupyter_core[version='>=4.6.0']

nbconvert -> jupyter_client[version='>=4.2'] -> jupyter_core[version='>=4.6.0']

jupyterlab -> notebook[version='>=4.3.1'] -> jupyter_core[version='>=4.4.0|>=4.6.0']

ipywidgets -> ipykernel[version='>=4.5.1'] -> jupyter_client -> jupyter_core[version='>=4.4.0|>=4.6.0']

anaconda-project -> anaconda-client -> nbformat[version='>=4.4.0'] -> jupyter_core

jupyter_core

anaconda-navigator -> anaconda-client[version='>=1.6'] -> nbformat[version='>=4.4.0'] -> jupyter_core

jupyter -> notebook -> jupyter_core[version='>=4.4.0|>=4.6.0']

_ipyw_jlab_nb_ext_conf -> jupyterlab -> notebook[version='>=4.3.1'] -> jupyter_core[version='>=4.4.0|>=4.6.0']

spyder-kernels -> jupyter_client[version='>=5.2.3'] -> jupyter_core[version='>=4.6.0']

widgetsnbextension -> notebook[version='>=4.4.1'] -> jupyter_core[version='>=4.4.0|>=4.6.0']

notebook -> jupyter_core[version='>=4.4.0|>=4.6.0']

ipywidgets -> nbformat[version='>=4.2.0'] -> jupyter_core

anaconda-client -> nbformat[version='>=4.4.0'] -> jupyter_core

nbformat -> jupyter_core

jupyter_console -> jupyter_client -> jupyter_core[version='>=4.6.0']

anaconda==2019.10 -> jupyter_client==5.3.3=py27_1 -> jupyter_core[version='>=4.4.0']

qtconsole -> jupyter_core

ipykernel -> jupyter_client -> jupyter_core[version='>=4.6.0']

spyder=4.0.0 -> nbconvert -> jupyter_core

jupyter_client -> jupyter_core[version='>=4.6.0']

nbconvert -> jupyter_core

jupyterlab_server -> notebook -> jupyter_core[version='>=4.4.0|>=4.6.0']

qtconsole -> jupyter_client[version='>=4.1'] -> jupyter_core[version='>=4.6.0']

Package spyder-kernels conflicts for:

spyder=4.0.0 -> spyder-kernels[version='>=1.8.1,<2.0.0']

spyder-kernels

anaconda==2019.10 -> spyder-kernels==0.5.2[build='py37_0|py36_0|py27_0']

anaconda==2019.10 -> spyder==3.3.6=py27_0 -> spyder-kernels[version='>=0.5.0,<1']

Package qtconsole conflicts for:

anaconda==2019.10 -> qtconsole==4.5.5=py_0

jupyter -> qtconsole

anaconda==2019.10 -> jupyter==1.0.0=py27_7 -> qtconsole[version='>=4.2']

spyder=4.0.0 -> qtconsole[version='>=4.6.0']

qtconsole

I tried doing the same with Anaconda Navigator I could not update my spyder.

When I tried to upgrade conda I got the below error:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\brichard\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\Menu\\spyder_shortcut.jsodone

AND

CondaError: Cannot link a source that does not exist. C:\Users\brichard\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Scripts\conda.exe 

Running `conda clean --packages` may resolve your problem.

Can anyone help me solve it?

Answer 1

You can run the below command in the Anaconda Prompt :

conda update anaconda

and then

conda install spyder=4

This will help you update the Spyder IDE to version 4.0.0

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