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

Question

I have Win 10

When running:

conda update conda

I encountered this error:

RemoveError: \'setuptools\' is a dependenc         


        

Answer 1

I'm on Linux Ubuntu 16.04, and it works for me by:

conda uninstall setuptools
# This is a must to make it work
conda install setuptools
conda update --force conda