I'm trying to update Anaconda because of an issue that showed up when installing some new packages (The environment is inconsistent, please check the package plan carefully). When I tried to follow the main advice here and running conda update -all I got the following message
==> WARNING: A newer version of conda exists. <==
current version: 22.9.0
latest version: 23.11.0
Please update conda by running
$ conda update -n base -c defaults conda
I ran the update anyway, which ended up solving my initial issue, but now if I try to update conda, with either the provided line conda update -n base -c defaults conda or with just conda update conda, conda gets stuck in a loop where it keeps updating/downgrading my anaconda packages as if i'm updating --all, but when i check the conda version (conda --version) it's still on version 22.9.
I also tried running counda clean -all which some comments on the mentioned posted said can help in some cases when conda update is acting up, but so far it's still stuck like this. I was trying to avoid reinstalling Anaconda altogether so I was wondering if anyone else has gotten stuck in this step.