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Update to Spyder 5 from linux distribution packages

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Hello, i installed spyder on Linux with Terminal. Spyder 4 works perfect. updated to 5.2.2 but system starts only spyder 4. any ideas?

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Searched the issues page for similar reports
Read the relevant sections of the Spyder Troubleshooting Guide and followed its advice
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
- Reset preferences with spyder --reset
- Reinstalled the latest version of Anaconda
- Tried the other applicable steps from the Troubleshooting Guide
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Created 2 years ago
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juliangilbeycommented, Mar 28, 2022

Hi @mateMathieu, I imagine that there is very little chance of Ubuntu including Spyder 5.3.0 in 22.04, though having it in 22.10 is likely. Ubuntu takes its packages from Debian, and it turned out that upgrading from 4.2.1 to 5.2.x was not feasible due to PyQt5 version incompatibilites. I’m hoping that I will be able to release 5.3.0 in Debian within the next month or two (though real-life and technical challenges might mean that it takes somewhat longer). Debian also doesn’t yet have debugpy, which is proving to be a real headache to sort out, so it may be that we have Spyder without debugpy initially.

Also, as @dalthviz says, pip install --user -U spyder, possibly in a virtual environment, will always get you the latest and greatest version.

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mateMathieucommented, Mar 31, 2022

OK thanks for your constructive comments.

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