So I've switched my python learning attempts over to google colab, but still fiddling with anaconda to learn how to get the environment right. I managed to fix it, but I'm not sure exactly how so I'd like to understand. Here's what happened:
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First anaconda navigator (on Mac) kept prompting me to update but nothing happened when I hit update. So I tried conda in the terminal and ran update all. Now I didn't get the prompt, but Spyder wouldn't launch. Finally, I used conda list -- revisions and rolled back to rev 0.
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Then I relaunched anaconda navigator, got the update prompt again, and this time when I hit it, it seemed to work. Spyder worked to, and when I hit update, it went up to 4.1.5 and continued to work. But now when I open up Spyder it tells me to upgrade to 5.0 but Anaconda won't.
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I assume this is because of compatibility and dependency issues, and Spyder is running ahead of whatever else it depends on in the Anaconda environment?
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So... tldr, I think anaconda is working fine now, and at the latest supported/compatible versions of everything given dependencies... am I correct?
I still don't know what happened and why it all started working again after the rollback+new update
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Hmm... actually still messed up. I'm at some stable point, but updates still aren't working right. Seems like I should only do updates via conda, not the GUI.
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