What does conda do when “solving environment”

Question

Whenever I run conda install/remove/update , it tells me it\'s \"Solving environment\" for some time before telling me the list of things it\'s going

Answer 1

You can add --debug option to the conda command and see the output from console(or terminal). For example, type conda update --debug numpy. From the output, we can see that the client requests repodata.json from channel list and do some computation locally in the Solving Environment Step.