UnsatisfiableError with conda update conda

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I am getting an error when trying to update conda from the terminal using the command conda update conda. It is saying:

Solving environment: failed

UnsatisfiableError: The following specifications were found to be in conflict:
  - conda
  - conda-canary::conda
Use "conda info <package>" to see the dependencies for each package.

with conda --version it printed out conda 4.5.4 and conda list is working. Can anybody have any idea how to solve this problem? Looking into conda installation path /home/samuel/anaconda3/conda-meta I cannot find any file named pinned. 

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path.py-11.0.1-py36_0.json
patsy-0.5.0-py36_0.json
pcre-8.42-h439df22_0.json
pep8-1.7.1-py36_0.json
pexpect-4.5.0-py36_0.json
pickleshare-0.7.4-py36h63277f8_0.json
pillow-5.1.0-py36h3deb7b8_0.json
pip-10.0.1-py36_0.json
pixman-0.34.0-hceecf20_3.json
pkginfo-1.4.2-py36_1.json
pluggy-0.6.0-py36hb689045_0.json
ply-3.11-py36_0.json
prompt_toolkit-1.0.15-py36h17d85b1_0.json
psutil-5.4.5-py36h14c3975_0.json
ptyprocess-0.5.2-py36h69acd42_0.json
py-1.5.3-py36_0.json
pycodestyle-2.4.0-py36_0.json
pycosat-0.6.3-py36h0a5515d_0.json
pycparser-2.18-py36hf9f622e_1.json
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1 Answers

In case anyone else stumbles across this issue I was able to work around this without having to reinstall anaconda by doing the following:

First remove conda-canary from your pinned packages:

$ conda config --system --remove pinned_packages conda-canary::conda

Then update conda as you would normally do:

$ conda update conda

From what I can tell so far this hasn't had any unintended consequences and should be easier than uninstalling and reinstalling anaconda.

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