I am getting an InvalidArchiveError in anaconda prompt when I am trying to install spacy. How to solve it?

Question

InvalidArchiveError(\'Error with archive C:\\Users\\Sahaja Reddy\\Anaconda3\\pkgs\\openssl-1.1.1g-he774522_0.conda. You probably need to delete and re-download or re-create thi

Answer 1

The issue is with corrupt openssl package. You need to first delete all openssl pkg files and reinstall them. This is what I did:

# as the error show where the openssl files are
cd  %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Continuum\miniconda3\pkgs\
# with linux I did rm -fr openssl*
DEL /Q /F /S "openssl*"
# install openssl from libarchive
conda install -c conda-forge libarchive

That reinstall openssl and everything will be back to normal.