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

Silly point to make here but I've been caught by this before: you may not be in the environment you think you are. Just before killing off any package run a quick check to see:

conda env list

Performing ops on the base environment can cause issues, so you may want to create or change environment.