Conda install and update do not work also solving environment get errors

Question

I am using anaconda as below:

(base) C:\\Users\\xxx>conda info

     active environment : base
    active env location : C:\\Users\\xxx\\Documents\\ANACON         


        

Answer 1

https://stackoverflow.com/a/61117831/7802476 helped me. Creating a new environment using the accepted answer didn't get my jupyter notebook to recognize the installed opencv. I could only import cv2 when I was in the environment on my terminal.

The fix was to use pip instead of conda, pip install opencv-python