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:

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Answer 1

I had solved the problem RemoveError: 'setuptools' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from conda's operating environment.

As the following way:

• pip uninstall setuptools
• conda update conda
• conda update setuptools

and then check tools

I haven't met any mistakes yet, but help me correct my way , if something wrong, please

Answer 2

I had the same problem, which was due to a bad installation of a package (OpenEXR in my case). Try to verify your package with conda list yourPackage. If you find which one it is, prefer installing it with pre-built packages here : https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/.

A stack-overflow thread that helped me : Python 2.7, PIP: "Failed building wheel for ..."

EDIT : Two friends had the same error, one solved it by installing/executing with admin rights. The other one succeeded by creating a new virtual environnement for python.

Answer 3

running conda update conda before solved the problem for me

Answer 4

try conda env create --force -f python3.6-environment-windows.yml I'm not sure exactly where to place it but I use the --force whenever I run into issues like this like conda update --force conda or conda install --force ... use it as last solution since it force conda to perform the command and you might run into some issues later on

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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.