Trouble updating to Spyder 4.0.0

Basile picture Basile · Dec 10, 2019 · Viewed 36.3k times · Source

I am under Windows 10, 64 bits.

I tried several time to update Spyder 4.0.0 with both the Anaconda Prompt and the Anaconda Navigator. It failed. I uninstalled Anaconda and reinstalled it.

Then I ran the Anaconda Prompt as an Administrator and executed :

conda update spyder

The version of Spyder was 3.3.6. I tried this command :

conda install spyder=4.0.0

The prompt returned :

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

When launching the Anaconda Navigator, the Spyder version was still on 3.3.6.

What am I missing to benefit the last version of Spyder ?

EDIT 1:

When I try to use the Anaconda Navigator, it says :

spyder 4.0.0 cannot be installed on this environment

And it proposes other environments to install but I want Spyder to be updated, not installed somewhere else.

EDIT 2: I successfuly change conda to 4.6, but I get these two errors :

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.

The conda clean --packages command does not help since the same errors are raised after it is executed.

Answer

Carlos Cordoba picture Carlos Cordoba · Dec 10, 2019

(Spyder maintainer here) Other users have reported that you need to run

conda update anaconda

and then

conda install spyder=4

to successfully update to version 4.

Hope that helps.