<opensafely upgrade> error in Anaconda prompt

[ciaranmci]

Every time I submit command in my Anaconda prompt I'm told that v1.17.1 of opensafely is available (I currently have 1.15.1). But everytime I run , it says it cannot find a version that satisfies the requirement for opensafely =1.17.1 (despite listing 1.15.1 in the list of options).

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

[StevenMaude]

@ciaranmci: can you check what version of Python you have? python --version within Anaconda Prompt should show you.

The latest version of the opensafely-cli recently started requiring Python 3.8, so this might be an issue here if you are on Python 3.7.

[ciaranmci]

No luck, I'm afraid.
It keeps installing openasafely v1.15.1, even when I try to force v1.20.0 (pip install opensafely==1.20.0)

[StevenMaude]

⬆️ It looks like that pip install is still running with an old Python.

It seems like you might need to create a new environment with the new version of Python, maybe? I'm not sure of the current canonical way of doing that. If someone else is reading who does know, they might give more concrete advice.

Things I found from a quick look around:

• Managing Python versions with Anaconda Navigator
• Managing Python versions with conda

If you can Anaconda Prompt to use a Python 3.8 or later, then the pip install opensafely==1.20.0 should work.

[Jongmassey]

if you want to install python 3.10 in your base conda image then conda install python=3.10 will do the trick. If you wish to keep your base environment and on a different version then conda create --name my_shiny_new_env, conda activate my_shiny_new_env and conda install python=3.10 will install the latest python in this isolated environment leaving your base environment intact

[ciaranmci]

Thanks @Jongmassey and @StevenMaude.
University IT finally approved the conda install of py 3.10 and it permitted me to install OpenSAFELY 1.20.1
Really appreciate your help.
Happy to close this issue.

[StevenMaude]

@ciaranmci: thanks for letting us know you got it fixed, and glad we could help! 🥳