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Why spyder 4.1.5 could not launch in Anaconda Navigator?

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Issue Report Checklist

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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Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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ccordoba12commented, Nov 17, 2020

before deleting it can you please explain what i’m deleting?

Because you used pip to install some packages which are interfering with Spyder, they got installed on that directory and you used sudo to install them.

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AminDarcommented, Nov 16, 2020

@AminDar, please delete this directory to fix your problem:
/Users/amin/.local/lib/python3.7

before deleting it can you please explain what i’m deleting? and and UPDATE: I could lunch it through terminal with adding a sudo commend (haven’t deleted the directory you mentioned yet): sudo spyder

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