I am a occasional Python user and hence only post here rather seldom. Full time lurker though :-)
I am a full time Linux user and moved from pip to conda for managing my Python life a few years ago. I am not an advanced conda user by any measure. For the most part moving to conda was a good idea. Yesterday, however, I encountered a problem that a quick internet search told me is somewhat common: adding a package to an environment stalls at the 'solving environment' stage. I found a bunch of rather different 'fixes'. I have not tried any yet. I think maybe I am doing environments wrong. Among the 'fixes' suggested are: * Use mamba for installing packages. * conda config --set channel_priority strict * Remove and re-create environments to ensure packages are up-to-date. The last one was not stated explicitly. I created it by 'interpreting' several posts that made me think I have done environments the wrong way. My thinking now: I should have more rather than fewer environments and make them more task specific -- avoid 'general purpose' environments to limit the number of packages in each environment. I have noticed that "conda update whatever" /always/ tells me everything is up-to-date. This can't be true. Will the procedure of the third bullet above solve this? No, I have not tried asking any LLM. I hope for some real human advice. TIA /Martin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-list.python.org
