Inconsistent base environment

My base environment warns: “The environment is inconsistent, please check the package plan carefully.” Can I reset the environment? If no, then how do I check the package plan? Thanks.

P.S. since I’m using Anaconda Navigator, should I prefer conda over pip when installing packages that are available in both package managers?

Good morning,

Thank you for using Anaconda, please launch these commands:

conda install anaconda

conda update --all

That should fix your problem, please tell us if it worked.

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@Carlos_Valin In Anaconda Prompt, I successfully executed conda install anaconda. But when I try to execute conda update --all, it gets stuck after:

(base) C:\Windows\System32>conda update --all
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_package_streaming\package_streaming.py:19: UserWarning: zstandard could not be imported. Running without .conda support.
warnings.warn(“zstandard could not be imported. Running without .conda support.”)
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_package_handling\api.py:29: UserWarning: Install zstandard Python bindings for .conda support
_warnings.warn(“Install zstandard Python bindings for .conda support”)
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): | C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_package_streaming\package_streaming.py:19: UserWarning: zstandard could not be imported. Running without .conda support.
warnings.warn(“zstandard could not be imported. Running without .conda support.”)
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_package_handling\api.py:29: UserWarning: Install zstandard Python bindings for .conda support
_warnings.warn(“Install zstandard Python bindings for .conda support”)
done
Solving environment: /

Thanks @Carlos_Valin, conda finished solving environment after over an hour. So I’ve successfully executed conda update --all. Hopefully, my base environment is consistent.