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

Any operation of conda like conda install, conda update, conda remove, etc., receive a result of error, saying

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

I almost tried every solution I searched from the internet but just couldn't fix it. It's like a tumor and I just can't find the core problem.



Solution 1:[1]

Try the these commands step by step conda uninstall setuptools after that conda install setuptools and then conda update setuptools restart anaconda and then enter these commands

conda update --force conda or conda update conda and then conda update anaconda again restart your anaconda

Solution 2:[2]

A simple conda update --force conda may fix this issue and go roll!

 conda update --force conda

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

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Solution 1 Ashu007
Solution 2