RemoveError: 'requests' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from conda's operating environment

Question

Having trouble installing a third party library and I have not seen this error before using Windows 10 with Anaconda installed:

C:\\Users\\XYZ>conda env creat         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem, which was due to a bad installation of a package (OpenEXR in my case). Try to verify your package with conda list yourPackage. If you find which one it is, prefer installing it with pre-built packages here : https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/.

A stack-overflow thread that helped me : Python 2.7, PIP: "Failed building wheel for ..."

EDIT : Two friends had the same error, one solved it by installing/executing with admin rights. The other one succeeded by creating a new virtual environnement for python.