title: Why is Conda not installing/updating the latest version of Spyder?
body: <p>I want to install Spyder on my Anaconda, so I ran the code exactly as instructed here:
  <a href="https://anaconda.org/anaconda/spyder" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://anaconda.org/anaconda/spyder</a></p>
  <pre><code>conda install -c anaconda spyder
  </code></pre>
  <p>Running Spyder gave me both:</p>
  <ol>
  <li>A prompt that says that there is a new version of Spyder</li>
  <li>An internal error about &quot;Spyder has encountered an internal problem!&quot;</li>
  </ol>
  <p>Okay, so I'll try to update Spyder first, and follow the command line instructions here:
  <a href="https://docs.spyder-ide.org/current/installation.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.spyder-ide.org/current/installation.html</a></p>
  <pre><code>conda update anaconda
  conda update spyder
  </code></pre>
  <p>Opening Spyder still gave me the same prompt and error. I then checked my Spyder version to be 4.0.1.</p>
  <p>Updating everything doesn't seem to help either:</p>
  <pre><code>conda update --all
  </code></pre>
  <p>My Spyder is still version 4.0.1.</p>
  <p>Digging further on the error code, supposed &quot;solutions&quot; were given here:<br />
  <a href="https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/12243" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/12243</a><br />
  <a href="https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/13370" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/13370</a><br />
  <a href="https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/11798" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/11798</a><br /></p>
  <p>Which is simply to tell users to install the latest version of Spyder by</p>
  <pre><code>conda install spyder=4.1.*
  </code></pre>
  <p><strong>But those bug reports and &quot;solutions&quot; were made one year ago. Spyder is on later versions now.</strong></p>
  <p>Why is conda still installing Spyder version 4.0.1, with all the issues, one year after 4.0.1 is known to be problematic? Why does it not update correctly to <strong>any</strong> later version? The latest version is supposed to be 5.0.0, with even 4.2.* rolled out before that.</p>