Conda update failed: SSL error: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed

Question

I found out that there was a problem when I tried doing

conda update 

Terminal output

conda update b

Answer 1

For those of us on corporate networks using web filters that implement trusted man in the middle SSL solutions, it is necessary to add the web-filter certificate to the certifi cacert.pem.

A guide to doing this is here.

Main steps are:

1. connect to https site with browser
2. view and save root certificate
3. convert cert to .pem
4. copy and paste onto end of existing cacert.pem
5. save
6. SSL happiness