Cannot pip udate numpy

Question

I want to update numpy from 1.19.1 to 1.19.2. So I did the following command:

pip install --upgrade numpy

However, I received the following error message:

ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/userdata/data-dlin/.conda/envs/mybase/lib/python3.7/site-packages/numpy-1.19.1.dist-info/RECORD'

I went to the directory and found the RECORD file was indeed missing. How do I fix the error?

Answer 1

Uninstalling numpy (pip uninstall numpy), then deleting the entire folder

(python environment)/lib/site-packages/numpy-1.19.X.dist-info

And reinstalling numpy (pip install numpy) fixed it for me.