Trouble updating to Anaconda Navigator 1.10.0 (MacOS)

Question

My Anaconda Navigator (v1.9.12) has been prompting me to upgrade to 1.10.0. Only problem is, when I click "yes" on the update prompt (which should close the navigator and update it), nothing happens.

No problem, I thought. I ran

conda update anaconda-navigator

in the terminal. To no avail (and yes, I read the doc online and ran "conda deactivate" beforehand), same with

conda install anaconda-navigator=1.10

Both ran for a while, but the desktop navigator is still on the old version. One thing to note: the Looking for incompatible packages line was taking way too long (hours with no notable progress), so I ctrl-c'ed out. But I ran these commands again they managed to finish running.

Now I'm out of ideas, would anyone know what I can do to go through with the update? Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

The solution is in the documentation of the update itself:

... -Fixed bug with Navigator Updater tool: The bug was a part of the 1.9.12 release, so user will not be able to update from 1.9.12 to 1.10.0 through this tool. You will need to use the terminal or install 1.10.0 from our official website. ...

Therefore you have to open anaconda prompt and run the following lines consecutively:

conda deactivate

enter

conda update anaconda-navigator

enter

Answer 2

If you prefer, you may update Navigator manually.

Open the Anaconda prompt (terminal on Linux or macOS):

Run this command to deactivate conda:

conda deactivate

Then run this command to update Navigator:

conda update anaconda-navigator

Had the same problem, worked on me.