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conda update InvalidSpecError

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I am trying to update a conda environment:

conda update --all

but get the following


Fetching package metadata .............

InvalidSpecError: Invalid spec: =20190808

output of conda list is as follows:

 alabaster                 0.7.10           py36h174008c_0  
 anaconda                  custom           py36ha4fed55_0  
 anaconda-client           1.6.14                   py36_0  
 anaconda-navigator        1.6.4                    py36_0  
 anaconda-project          0.8.2            py36h9ee5d53_0  
 apipkg                    1.5                       <pip>
 appnope                   0.1.0            py36hf537a9a_0  
 appnope                   0.1.0                     <pip>
 appscript                 1.0.1            py36h9e71e49_1  
 arrow-cpp                 0.8.0                    py36_4    conda-forge
 asn1crypto                0.24.0                   py36_0  
 astroid                   1.6.3                    py36_0  
 astropy                   3.0.2            py36h917ab60_1  
 attrs                     18.1.0                   py36_0  
 babel                     2.5.3                    py36_0  
 backcall                  0.1.0                     <pip>
 backcall                  0.1.0                    py36_0  
 backports                 1.0              py36ha3c1827_1  
 backports.shutil_get_terminal_size 1.0.0            py36hd7a2ee4_2  
 bash_kernel               0.7.1                     <pip>
 bctpy                     0.5.0                     <pip>
 beautifulsoup4            4.6.0            py36h72d3c9f_1  
 billiard                  3.5.0.4                   <pip>
 biopython                 1.72             py36h6440ff4_0    anaconda
 bitarray                  0.8.1            py36h1de35cc_1  
 bkcharts                  0.2              py36h073222e_0  
 blas                      1.0                         mkl  
 blaze                     0.11.3           py36h02e7a37_0  
 bleach                    2.1.3                    py36_0  
 bleach                    2.1.3                     <pip>
 blosc                     1.14.3               hd9629dc_0  
 bokeh                     0.12.16                  py36_0  
 boto                      2.48.0           py36hdbc59ac_1  
 bottleneck                1.2.1            py36hbd380ad_0  
 brainnetworks             0.3.2                     <pip>
 bz2file                   0.98                       py_0    conda-forge
 bzip2                     1.0.6                h1de35cc_5  
 ca-certificates           2018.03.07                    0  
 cairo                     1.14.12              he60d9cb_2  
 certifi                   2018.4.16                py36_0  
 cffi                      1.11.5           py36h342bebf_0  
 cffi                      1.13.2                    <pip>
 chardet                   3.0.4            py36h96c241c_1  
 click                     6.7              py36hec950be_0  
 click-plugins             1.0.3                     <pip>
 cligj                     0.4.0                     <pip>
 cloog                     0.18.0                        0  
 cloudpickle               0.5.3                    py36_0  
 clyent                    1.2.2            py36hae3ad88_0  
 colorama                  0.3.9            py36hd29a30c_0  
 configparser              3.5.0                     <pip>
 connectome-builder        1.21                      <pip>
 contextlib2               0.5.5            py36hd66e5e7_0  
 cryptography              2.2.2            py36h1de35cc_0  
 curl                      7.60.0               ha441bb4_0  
 cvxopt                    1.2.0            py36hb579ef3_0  
 cycler                    0.10.0           py36hfc81398_0  
 cython                    0.28.2           py36h1de35cc_0  
 cytoolz                   0.9.0.1          py36h1de35cc_0  
 dask                      0.17.5                   py36_0  
 dask-core                 0.17.5                   py36_0  
 datashape                 0.5.4            py36hfb22df8_0  
 dbus                      1.13.2               h760590f_1  
 decorator                 4.3.0                     <pip>
 decorator                 4.3.0                    py36_0  
 descartes                 1.1.0                     <pip>
 dipy                      0.15.0           py36h7eb728f_0    conda-forge
 distributed               1.21.8                   py36_0  
 docutils                  0.14             py36hbfde631_0  
 entropy-estimators        1.0                       <pip>
 entrypoints               0.2.3            py36hd81d71f_2  
 entrypoints               0.2.3                     <pip>
 et_xmlfile                1.0.1            py36h1315bdc_0  
 execnet                   1.5.0                     <pip>
 expat                     2.2.5                hb8e80ba_0  
 fastcache                 1.0.2            py36h1de35cc_2  
 fasteners                 0.14.1                    <pip>
 feather-format            0.4.0                    py36_2    conda-forge
 feather-format            0.4.0                     <pip>
 ffmpeg                    4.0                  hc84425e_0  
 filelock                  3.0.4                    py36_0  
 Fiona                     1.7.13                    <pip>
 flake8                    3.5.0                    py36_1  
 flask                     1.0.2                    py36_1  
 flask-cors                3.0.4                    py36_0  
 fontconfig                2.12.6               h9850fc5_0  
 freetype                  2.8                  h12048fb_1  
 funcsigs                  1.0.2                     <pip>
 future                    0.16.0                    <pip>
 future                    0.17.1                   py36_0  
 futures                   3.1.1                     <pip>
 gast                      0.2.2                     <pip>
 gcc                       4.8.5                         8  
 geopandas                 0.4.0                     <pip>
 get_terminal_size         1.0.0                h7520d66_0  
 gettext                   0.19.8.1             h15daf44_3  
 gevent                    1.3.0            py36h1de35cc_0  
 glib                      2.56.1               h35bc53a_0  
 glob2                     0.6              py36h94c9186_0  
 glpk                      4.65              h0a95893_1001    conda-forge
 gmp                       6.1.2                hb37e062_1  
 gmpy2                     2.0.8            py36hf9c35bd_2  
 gnutls                    3.5.17                        0    conda-forge
 greenlet                  0.4.13           py36h1de35cc_0  
 gsl                       2.4                  h1de35cc_4  
 h5py                      2.8.0            py36h967a92a_0  
 hdf5                      1.8.18               h017327d_1  
 heapdict                  1.0.0                    py36_2  
 hide-code                 0.5.2                     <pip>
 html5lib                  1.0.1                     <pip>
 html5lib                  1.0.1            py36h2f9c1c0_0  
 icu                       58.2                 h4b95b61_1  
 idna                      2.6              py36h8628d0a_1  
 igraph                    0.7.1             h0a67f88_1005    conda-forge
 imageio                   2.3.0                    py36_0  
 imagesize                 1.0.0                    py36_0  
 infomap                   1.0.0b8                   <pip>
 intel-openmp              2018.0.0                      8  
 ipykernel                 4.8.2                    py36_0  
 ipykernel                 4.8.2                     <pip>
 ipython                   6.5.0                     <pip>
 ipython                   6.4.0                    py36_0  
 ipython-genutils          0.2.0                     <pip>
 ipython_genutils          0.2.0            py36h241746c_0  
 ipywidgets                7.2.1                     <pip>
 ipywidgets                7.2.1                    py36_0  
 isl                       0.12.2                        1  
 isodate                   0.6.0                     <pip>
 isort                     4.3.4                    py36_0  
 itsdangerous              0.24             py36h49fbb8d_1  
 jbig                      2.1                  h4d881f8_0  
 jdcal                     1.4                      py36_0  
 jedi                      0.12.0                    <pip>
 jedi                      0.12.0                   py36_1  
 jinja2                    2.10             py36hd36f9c5_0  
 Jinja2                    2.10                      <pip>
 jpeg                      9b                   he5867d9_2  
 jsoncpp                   1.8.4                h04f5b5a_0  
 jsonschema                2.6.0                     <pip>
 jsonschema                2.6.0            py36hb385e00_0  
 jupyter                   1.0.0                    py36_4  
 jupyter                   1.0.0                     <pip>
 jupyter-client            5.2.3                     <pip>
 jupyter-console           5.2.0                     <pip>
 jupyter-core              4.4.0                     <pip>
 jupyter_client            5.2.3                    py36_0  
 jupyter_console           5.2.0            py36hccf5b1c_1  
 jupyter_core              4.4.0            py36h79cf704_0  
 jupyterlab                0.32.1                   py36_0  
 jupyterlab_launcher       0.10.5                   py36_0  
 Keras                     2.3.1                     <pip>
 Keras-Applications        1.0.8                     <pip>
 Keras-Preprocessing       1.1.0                     <pip>
 kiwisolver                1.0.1            py36h792292d_0  
 lazy-object-proxy         1.3.1            py36h2fbbe47_0  
 libcurl                   7.60.0               hf30b1f0_0  
 libcxx                    4.0.1                h579ed51_0  
 libcxxabi                 4.0.1                hebd6815_0  
 libedit                   3.1.20170329         hb402a30_2  
 libffi                    3.2.1                h475c297_4  
 libgfortran               3.0.1                h93005f0_2  
 libiconv                  1.15                 hdd342a3_7  
 libidn11                  1.33                          0    conda-forge
 libopus                   1.2.1                h169cedb_0  
 libpng                    1.6.34               he12f830_0  
 libsodium                 1.0.16               h3efe00b_0  
 libssh2                   1.8.0                h322a93b_4  
 libtiff                   4.0.9                hcb84e12_1  
 libvpx                    1.7.0                h378b8a2_0  
 libxml2                   2.9.8                hab757c2_1  
 libxslt                   1.1.32               hb819dd2_0  
 line-profiler             2.1.2                     <pip>
 llvmlite                  0.23.1           py36hc454e04_0  
 locket                    0.2.0            py36hca03003_1  
 lxml                      4.2.1            py36h7166777_0  
 lzo                       2.10                 h362108e_2  
 Markdown                  2.6.11                    <pip>
 MarkupSafe                1.0                       <pip>
 markupsafe                1.0              py36h3a1e703_1  
 matplotlib                2.2.3                     <pip>
 matplotlib                2.2.2            py36ha7267d0_0  
 mccabe                    0.6.1            py36hdaeb55d_0  
 metakernel                0.20.14                    py_0    conda-forge
 metis                     5.1.0             h0a44026_1003    conda-forge
 mistune                   0.8.3            py36h1de35cc_1  
 mistune                   0.8.3                     <pip>
 mizani                    0.4.6                     <pip>
 mkl                       2018.0.3                      1  
 mkl-service               1.1.2            py36h7ea6df4_4  
 mkl_fft                   1.0.1            py36h917ab60_0  
 mkl_random                1.0.1            py36h78cc56f_0  
 mock                      2.0.0                     <pip>
 monotonic                 1.5                       <pip>
 more-itertools            4.1.0                    py36_0  
 mpc                       1.0.3                h7a72875_5  
 mpfr                      3.1.5                h711e7fd_2  
 mpmath                    1.0.0            py36hf1b8295_2  
 msgpack                   1.0.0                     <pip>
 msgpack-python            0.5.6            py36h04f5b5a_0  
 multipledispatch          0.5.0                    py36_0  
 munch                     2.3.2                     <pip>
 navigator-updater         0.1.0                    py36_0  
 nbconvert                 5.3.1            py36h810822e_0  
 nbconvert                 5.3.1                     <pip>
 nbformat                  4.4.0                     <pip>
 nbformat                  4.4.0            py36h827af21_0  
 ncurses                   6.1                  h0a44026_0  
 nettle                    3.3                           0    conda-forge
 networkx                  2.1                      py36_0  
 neurdflib                 5.0.0.post1               <pip>
 nibabel                   2.3.3                      py_0    conda-forge
 nibabel                   2.3.0                     <pip>
 nilearn                   0.4.1                     <pip>
 nilearn                   0.5.0              pyh24bf2e0_0    conda-forge
 nipy                      0.4.2                     <pip>
 nipy                      0.4.1           py36h917ab60_1001    conda-forge
 nipype                    1.1.9.dev0                <pip>
 nltk                      3.3.0                    py36_0  
 nose                      1.3.7            py36h73fae2b_2  
 notebook                  5.5.0                    py36_0  
 notebook                  5.6.0                     <pip>
 numba                     0.38.0           py36h1702cab_0  
 numexpr                   2.6.5            py36h057f876_0  
 numpy                     1.14.3           py36h9bb19eb_1  
 numpy                     1.16.2                    <pip>
 numpy-base                1.14.3           py36h479e554_1  
 numpydoc                  0.8.0                    py36_0  
 oct2py                    4.0.6                      py_1    conda-forge
 octave_kernel             0.28.4                     py_1    conda-forge
 odo                       0.5.1            py36hc1af34a_0  
 olefile                   0.45.1                   py36_0  
 openpyxl                  2.5.3                    py36_0  
 openssl                   1.0.2o               h26aff7b_0  
 packaging                 17.1                     py36_0  
 palettable                3.1.1                     <pip>
 pandas                    0.23.0           py36h1702cab_0  
 pandas                    0.23.4                    <pip>
 pandoc                    1.19.2.1             ha5e8f32_1  
 pandocfilters             1.4.2                     <pip>
 pandocfilters             1.4.2            py36h3b0b094_1  
 parquet-cpp               1.4.0.pre                     2    conda-forge
 parso                     0.2.0                    py36_0  
 parso                     0.2.0                     <pip>
 partd                     0.3.8            py36hf5c4cb8_0  
 path.py                   11.0.1                   py36_0  
 pathlib2                  2.3.2                    py36_0  
 patsy                     0.5.0                    py36_0  
 pbr                       4.2.0                     <pip>
 pcre                      8.42                 h378b8a2_0  
 pdfkit                    0.6.1                     <pip>
 pep8                      1.7.1                    py36_0  
 pexpect                   4.5.0                     <pip>
 pexpect                   4.5.0                    py36_0  
 pfile-tools               0.3.2                     <pip>
 pickleshare               0.7.4            py36hf512f8e_0  
 pickleshare               0.7.4                     <pip>
 pillow                    5.1.0            py36hfcce615_0  
 pip                       18.0                      <pip>
 pip                       10.0.1                   py36_0  
 pixman                    0.34.0            h1de35cc_1003    conda-forge
 pkginfo                   1.4.2                    py36_1  
 plotnine                  0.4.0                     <pip>
 pluggy                    0.6.0            py36hb1d0581_0  
 ply                       3.11                     py36_0  
 prometheus-client         0.3.1                     <pip>
 prompt-toolkit            1.0.15                    <pip>
 prompt_toolkit            1.0.15           py36haeda067_0  
 prov                      1.5.3                     <pip>
 psutil                    5.4.5            py36h1de35cc_0  
 ptitprince                0.1.5                     <pip>
 ptyprocess                0.5.2                     <pip>
 ptyprocess                0.5.2            py36he6521c3_0  
 py                        1.5.3                    py36_0  
 pyarrow                   0.9.0.post1               <pip>
 pyarrow                   0.8.0                    py36_0    conda-forge
 pycairo                   1.18.0          py36ha54c0a8_1000    conda-forge
 pycodestyle               2.3.1            py36h83e8646_0  
 pycodestyle_magic         0.1                       <pip>
 pycosat                   0.6.3            py36hee92d8f_0  
 pycparser                 2.18             py36h724b2fc_1  
 pycrypto                  2.6.1            py36h1de35cc_8  
 pycurl                    7.43.0.1         py36hdbc3d79_0  
 pydicom                   1.2.2                      py_0    conda-forge
 pydicom                   1.1.0                     <pip>
 pydot                     1.2.4                     <pip>
 pydotplus                 2.0.2                     <pip>
 pyevtk                    1.1.0                     <pip>
 pyflakes                  1.6.0            py36hea45e83_0  
 pygments                  2.2.0            py36h240cd3f_0  
 Pygments                  2.2.0                     <pip>
 PyHamcrest                1.9.0                     <pip>
 pylint                    1.8.4                    py36_0  
 pyodbc                    4.0.23           py36h0a44026_0  
 pyopenssl                 18.0.0                   py36_0  
 pyparsing                 2.2.0            py36hb281f35_0  
 pyproj                    1.9.5.1                   <pip>
 pyqt                      5.9.2            py36h11d3b92_0  
 pysocks                   1.6.8                    py36_0  
 pytables                  3.4.4            py36hca30cd5_0  
 pytest                    3.5.1                    py36_0  
 pytest-arraydiff          0.2                      py36_0  
 pytest-astropy            0.3.0                    py36_0  
 pytest-doctestplus        0.1.3                    py36_0  
 pytest-forked             0.2                       <pip>
 pytest-openfiles          0.3.0                    py36_0  
 pytest-remotedata         0.2.1                    py36_0  
 pytest-xdist              1.22.5                    <pip>
 python                    3.6.5                hc167b69_1  
 python-dateutil           2.7.2                     <pip>
 python-dateutil           2.7.3                    py36_0  
 python-igraph             0.7.1.post6     py36h1de35cc_1005    conda-forge
 python-louvain            0.13                      <pip>
 python.app                2                        py36_8  
 pytz                      2018.4                   py36_0  
 pywavelets                0.5.2            py36h2710a04_0  
 pyyaml                    3.12             py36h2ba1e63_1  
 pyzmq                     17.0.0                    <pip>
 pyzmq                     17.0.0           py36h1de35cc_1  
 qt                        5.9.5                h02808f3_0  
 qtawesome                 0.4.4            py36h468c6fb_0  
 qtconsole                 4.3.1            py36hd96c0ff_0  
 qtconsole                 4.3.1                     <pip>
 qtpy                      1.4.1                    py36_0  
 rdflib                    4.2.2                     <pip>
 readline                  7.0                  hc1231fa_4  
 redis                     2.10.6                    <pip>
 requests                  2.18.4           py36h4516966_1  
 rope                      0.10.7           py36h68959ac_0  
 rpy2                      3.2.2                     <pip>
 rq                        0.12.0                    <pip>
 ruamel_yaml               0.15.35          py36h1de35cc_1  
 sas7bdat                  2.1.1                     <pip>
 saspy                     2.2.6                     <pip>
 scikit-image              0.13.1           py36h1de35cc_1  
 scikit-learn              0.19.1           py36hffbff8c_0  
 scipy                     1.4.1                     <pip>
 scipy                     1.1.0            py36hcaad992_0  
 scipy                     1.0.1                     <pip>
 seaborn                   0.9.0                    py36_0  
 send2trash                1.5.0                    py36_0  
 Send2Trash                1.5.0                     <pip>
 setuptools                39.1.0                    <pip>
 setuptools                39.1.0                   py36_0  
 Shapely                   1.6.4.post2               <pip>
 simplegeneric             0.8.1                    py36_2  
 simplegeneric             0.8.1                     <pip>
 SimpleITK                 1.2.0                     <pip>
 simplejson                3.16.0                    <pip>
 singledispatch            3.4.0.3          py36hf20db9d_0  
 sip                       4.19.8           py36h0a44026_0  
 six                       1.11.0                    <pip>
 six                       1.11.0           py36h0e22d5e_1  
 snappy                    1.1.7                he62c110_3  
 snowballstemmer           1.2.1            py36h6c7b616_0  
 sortedcollections         0.6.1                    py36_0  
 sortedcontainers          1.5.10                   py36_0  
 sos                       0.9.16.1                  <pip>
 sos-bash                  0.9.12.2                  <pip>
 sos-bioinfo               0.9.10.1                  <pip>
 sos-javascript            0.9.12.2                  <pip>
 sos-julia                 0.9.12.1                  <pip>
 sos-matlab                0.9.12.1                  <pip>
 sos-notebook              0.9.16.0                  <pip>
 sos-pbs                   0.9.16.0                  <pip>
 sos-python                0.9.12.1                  <pip>
 sos-r                     0.9.12.3                  <pip>
 sos-rq                    0.9.16.1                  <pip>
 sos-ruby                  0.9.15.0                  <pip>
 sos-sas                   0.9.12.3                  <pip>
 sphinx                    1.7.4                    py36_0  
 sphinxcontrib             1.0              py36h9364dc8_1  
 sphinxcontrib-websupport  1.0.1            py36h92f4a7a_1  
 spyder                    3.2.8                    py36_0  
 sqlalchemy                1.2.7            py36hb402a30_0  
 sqlite                    3.23.1               hf1716c9_0  
 statsmodels               0.9.0            py36h1d22016_0  
 suitesparse               5.2.0                he235d88_0  
 sympy                     1.1.1            py36h7f3cf04_0  
 tableone                  0.5.13                    <pip>
 tabulate                  0.8.2                     <pip>
 tbb                       2018_20171205                 0    conda-forge
 tblib                     1.3.2            py36hda67792_0  
 tensorflow-estimator      2.1.0                     <pip>
 termcolor                 1.1.0                     <pip>
 terminado                 0.8.1                     <pip>
 terminado                 0.8.1                    py36_1  
 testpath                  0.3.1                     <pip>
 testpath                  0.3.1            py36h625a49b_0  
 tk                        8.6.7                h35a86e2_3  
 toolz                     0.9.0                    py36_0  
 tornado                   5.0.2                    py36_0  
 tornado                   5.0.2                     <pip>
 tqdm                      4.24.0                    <pip>
 traitlets                 4.3.2            py36h65bd3ce_0  
 traitlets                 4.3.2                     <pip>
 traits                    4.6.0                     <pip>
 typing                    3.6.4                    py36_0  
 tzlocal                   2.0.0                     <pip>
 unicodecsv                0.14.1           py36he531d66_0  
 unixodbc                  2.3.6                h3efe00b_0  
 urllib3                   1.22             py36h68b9469_0  
 vtk                       8.1.0           py36h04d9db9_201  
 Wand                      0.4.4                     <pip>
 wcwidth                   0.1.7            py36h8c6ec74_0  
 wcwidth                   0.1.7                     <pip>
 webencodings              0.5.1            py36h3b9701d_1  
 webencodings              0.5.1                     <pip>
 werkzeug                  0.14.1                   py36_0  
 wheel                     0.31.1                   py36_0  
 widgetsnbextension        3.2.1                    py36_0  
 widgetsnbextension        3.2.1                     <pip>
 wrapt                     1.10.11          py36hc29e774_0  
 x264                      20131217                      3    conda-forge
 xlrd                      1.2.0                      py_0    conda-forge
 xlsxwriter                1.0.4                    py36_0  
 xlwings                   0.11.8                   py36_0  
 xlwt                      1.2.0            py36h5ad1178_0  
 xxhash                    1.2.0                     <pip>
 xz                        5.2.4                h1de35cc_4  
 yaml                      0.1.7                hc338f04_2  
 zeromq                    4.2.5                h378b8a2_0  
 zict                      0.1.3            py36h71da714_0  
 zlib                      1.2.11               hf3cbc9b_2
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RobMcC Avatar asked Mar 19 '20 12:03

RobMcC


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1 Answers

While not a solution, we came up with a workaround, so I figured I'd post it here.

Installing a newer version of conda in an alternative location, and using this specific activate binary to activate the environment allows installs to be functional once again.

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Branden Babcock Avatar answered Jan 04 '23 14:01

Branden Babcock