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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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You might try setting up your dev environment in a VM running Ubuntu. Then, at least you can blow away your VM if you need multiple attempts to get the right setup. This is much easier than fixing failed attempts on your main machine.
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if you just have to do regular data munging stuff -- scraping, manipulating strings, data analysis and viz... then I gotta say R is just way, way easier to get across. If you are doing software and whatever then you know what you need and ignore this.