How do I update Anaconda?

Question

I have Anaconda installed on my computer and I\'d like to update it. In Navigator I can see that there are several individual packages that can be updated, but also an

Answer 1

This is what the official Anaconda documentation recommends:

conda update conda
conda update anaconda=2020.07

If the second line throws an error (typo in the documentation?) this worked here:

conda install anaconda=2020.07

(You can find all version specifier here.)

The command will update to a specific release of the Anaconda meta-package.

This is, IMHO, what 95% of Anaconda users want. Simply upgrading to the latest version of the Anaconda meta-package (put together and tested by the Anaconda Distributors) and not caring about the update status of individual packages (which would be issued by conda update --all).