Conda update failed: SSL error: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed

Question

I found out that there was a problem when I tried doing

conda update 

Terminal output

conda update b

Answer 1

Conda needs to know where to find you SSL certificate store.

conda config --set ssl_verify <pathToYourFile>.crt

No need to disable SSL verification.

This command add a line to your $HOME/.condarc file or %USERPROFILE%\.condarc file on Windows that looks like:

ssl_verify: <pathToYourFile>.crt

If you leave your organization's network, you can just comment out that line in .condarc with a # and uncomment when you return.

If it still doesn't work, make sure that you are using the latest version of curl, checking both the conda-forge and anaconda channels.

Answer 2

After 2 hrs of net surfing Finally For me the problem was fixed by creating a folder pip, with a file: pip.ini in C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\ e.g:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\pip\pip.ini

Inside it I wrote:

[global]
trusted-host = pypi.python.org
pypi.org
files.pythonhosted.org

I restarted python, and then pip permanently trusted these sites, and used them to download packages from.

If you can't find the AppData Folder on windows, write %appdata% in file explorer and it should appear.

Source : pip install fails with "connection error: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:598)"