I would like to install selenium v4.1.0 on Anaconda python on Windows.
https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/selenium
If you run conda install selenium, conda will install selenium v3.11 if you’re on Windows.
I ran conda install selenium --channel conda-forge/noarch to make conda install selenium v4.1.0 which is the noarch version.
The problem is when I run conda update --all, conda will downgrade my selenium back to v3.
After some googling, I discover modifying the config file .condarc may fix this problem. Question is how to modify .condarc to force conda to install the noarch selenium version when running “conda update –all”?
I am open to other solutions like pinning that will prevent conda from downgrading selenium back to v3 when I run conda update --all
I’m using python 3.9.12, conda 4.12.0
Answers:
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Method 1
Conda has a sufficiently expressive specification grammar (called MatchSpec) to handle this – no need to mess around with .condarc.
conda install "conda-forge::selenium[version='>=4.1']"
It is possible that there are conflicts with the current environment, in which case, consider creating a new environment with Python 3.7 or later.
Method 2
As @merv mentioned pin your package, which is a little unclear in the linked post. Open the anaconda3 directory, go into conda-meta subfolder and create a file called pinned. Inside the file add 1 line: selenium>=4.1.0 and test again. If you have an environment setup go into anaconda3envs and inside the correct environment folder, go into the conda-meta folder there and save your pinned file. I tested it and it would keep the selenium>=4.1.0 using this method after doing a conda update --all
If you open Anaconda Prompt and type: where python it will usually show your installation directory, in case you don’t know where it installed to.
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