On 9/21/2026 5:17 PM, Martin Schöön wrote:
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
Dear Martin,
Sadly, I am completely unfamiliar with Conda, nor do I know anything
about managing Python environments yet. So I only have a suggestion
for the intermesso [0], and hopefully the wizards of comp.lang.python
have a better answer.
Have you considered installing the offending package using your opera-
ting system package manager instead, if available as such? There are
n+1 [1] Linux package managers, so I leave off any suggestions for the
command line tool.
Best wishes, and happy Python!
[0] I simply presume someone is listening to music while we wait for the
wizards to reply.
[1] Somewhere, someone is coding a Linux package manager from scratch,
hence if there are /n/ today, there will be /n+1/ tomorrow.
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