Why Is Conda Not Installing/updating The Latest Version Of Spyder?

I want to install Spyder on my Anaconda, so I ran the code exactly as instructed here: https://anaconda.org/anaconda/spyder conda install -c anaconda spyder Running Spyder gave me

Solution 1:

The problem is with the Anaconda channel.

I uninstalled Spyder and then install with the line:

conda install spyder

and Spyder 5.0.0 was successfully installed.

Anaconda's Spyder page (https://anaconda.org/anaconda/spyder) gave the command as:

conda install -c anaconda spyder

which led to the installation of Spyder 4.0.1, instead of 5.0.0 which was what it was supposed to install as documented on the page itself.