How to update your Anaconda Navigator
Anaconda and its features
Anaconda is the best GUI(desktop graphical user interface) in the anaconda distribution. It allows launching packages directly and launch some amazing applications. Anaconda is a collection of python, R language, and all the data science IDE’s which helps for visualization and analysis. It is easy to use and very helpful with provided packages. Many people opt for Anaconda for handy use and to develop amazing projects.
some amazing applications are:
- Jupyter Notebook
- Jupyter Lab
- IBM Watson Studio Cloud
- Datalore
- QT Console
- Spyder
- RStudio
- Glueviz
- Orange3
- PyCharm Professional
Updating your Anaconda is pretty easy. But sometimes people might face issues regarding the update.
There are several ways to update
1. Update from Anaconda Navigator
Open Anaconda Navigator. Click on the top-most right corner checkbox update. you will be provided with a description saying the navigator is going to close for the update.
*If the problem still persists and the update didn’t initiate then you need to follow the second process
2. Launch anaconda as administrator
Launch Anaconda Navigator as administrator. This can be done by going to the search bar and type in Anaconda Navigator. Right-click on it and click run as administrator. On the user account-control click yes. Then go to Environment and click update index for better performance. Then continue to step-1.
*If this doesn’t work and an update failure appears, you can directly update from anaconda prompt as command-line for Navigator just like a command prompt for the computer
3. Update from anaconda prompt
Type in 3commands
- Remember to run the Anaconda prompt in “run as administrator”
- conda list (check’s for the current version)
- conda update conda
- conda update anaconda= 2020.11 (or) conda install anaconda= 2020.11
Here 2020.11 is the updated version or the version you wanted to update to.
For some reason, if that didn’t work out for you. There is another way to save you.
4. Run prompt as administrator
Open command prompt as administrator. Run the 2 commands
- conda update conda
- conda update --all
This should solve your problem.
Happy learning!!!
Thank you.
