Updating Spyder in Anaconda to 5.2.2

Question

I feel like I'm going absolutely insane as I can't find any information on this anywhere... Is there anyway to update Spyder in Anaconda Navigator to version 5.2.2? The navigator shows that the highest possible version for Spyder is 5.1.5:

I particularly want to update to 5.2.2 because the debugger in 5.1.5 is broken, and it seems the only correct way to fix it is to update to 5.2.2. See Link to stackoverflow stating that one needs to update to 5.2.2 to fix the debugger

I've tried:

conda install spyder==5.2.2

but it just says "PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels: - spyder==5.2.2"

I've also tried:

pip install spyder==5.2.2

But get the error "ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\Users\##\Anaconda3\envs\spyder\Lib\site-packages\PyQt5\QtCore.pyd' Consider using the --user option or check the permissions."

Also trying,

pip install spyder==5.2.2 --user

The command does seem to run to completion without error, but the IDE doesn't seem to have updated as it still says it's 5.1.5 and it also says some things about a warning of missing dependencies (and the debugger still doesn't work).

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Spyder 5.2.2 is only available for the moment through the conda-forge channel. To install it I recommend you to create a new env using only conda-forge packages. You can do that by running from an Anaconda prompt something like the following:

conda create -n spyder-env -c conda-forge python=3.9 spyder=5.2.2

To check what is the latest version available in the different channels you can go to https://anaconda.org/search?q=spyder