spyder requires qtconsole >= 5.0.3, but highest version available in conda is 5.0.2

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• Reproduced the issue after updating with conda update spyder (or pip, if not using Anaconda)
• Could not reproduce inside jupyter qtconsole (if console-related)
• Tried basic troubleshooting (if a bug/error)
  • Restarted Spyder
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• Completed the Problem Description, Steps to Reproduce and Version sections below

Problem Description

Upon startup, the following error message appears: You have missing dependencies! Mandatory: qtconsole >=5.0.3 : 5.0.2 (NOK) Please install them to avoid this message. Note: Spyder could work without some of these dependencies, however to have a smooth experience when using Spyder we strongly recommend you to install all the listed missing dependencies. Failing to install these dependencies might result in bugs. Please be sure that any found bugs are not the direct result of missing dependencies, prior to reporting a new issue.

Versions

* Spyder version: 4.2.4
* Python version: 3.9.2 64-bit
* Qt version: 5.9.7
* PyQt version: 5.9.2
* Operating System name/version: Linux 4.15.0-122-generic 

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
atomicwrites >=1.2.0            :  1.4.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0                 :  4.0.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0             :  1.6.0 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111     :  20200713 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2            :  3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=7.6.0                 :  7.21.0 (OK)
jedi =0.17.2                    :  0.17.2 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0              :  3.2.0 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0                :  22.3.0 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0                 :  6.0.7 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0                :  1.1.0 (OK)
parso =0.7.0                    :  0.7.0 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0                 :  4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4               :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                    :  5.8.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                  :  2.8.1 (OK)
pylint >=1.0                    :  2.7.2 (OK)
pyls >=0.36.2;<1.0.0            :  0.36.2 (OK)
pyls_black >=0.4.6              :  0.4.6 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.3.2             :  0.3.2 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=2.8;<3.0           :  2.8.1 (OK)
qtawesome >=0.5.7               :  1.0.2 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.0.3               :  5.0.2 (NOK)
qtpy >=1.5.0                    :  1.9.0 (OK)
rtree >=0.8.3                   :  0.9.4 (OK)
setuptools >=39.0.0             :  52.0.0.post20210125 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                  :  3.5.3 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=1.10.2;<1.11.0 :  1.10.2 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0            :  4.2.1 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1             :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3;<2.0.0        :  1.0.2 (OK)
xdg >=0.26                      :  0.27 (OK)
zmq >=17                        :  20.0.0 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                   :  None (NOK)
matplotlib >=2.0.0              :  3.3.4 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                     :  1.19.2 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1                  :  1.2.3 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                  :  1.6.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                   :  None (NOK)

As can be seen from the dependencies, spyder requires qtconsole >=5.0.3. However, conda search -f qtconsole reveals that the highest version available is 5.0.2. The qtconsole docs say that the latest release is 5.0.3. Is this just an issue with conda not having the latest version yet?

[SlimShadys]

I was able to fix this problem by running: conda install -c conda-forge qtconsole

The updated qtconsole lib (5.0.3) can be found here: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/qtconsole

[ccordoba12]

Hey @gica3618, thanks for reporting. I’ll inform the Anaconda team about this problem so they can fix it as soon as possible.