RemoveError: 'requests' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from conda's operating environment

Question

Having trouble installing a third party library and I have not seen this error before using Windows 10 with Anaconda installed:

C:\\Users\\XYZ>conda env creat         


        

Answer 1

This worked for me on Linux:

1. Uninstall the package via pip:

   pip uninstall setuptools
   

2. Reinstall using the following command:

   conda install -c anaconda setuptools
   

Consider also that system packages (python3-setuptools, python-setuptools in Ubuntu) might need to be removed.