Cannot update spyder=5.1.5 on new anaconda install

(Spyder maintainer here) Our regular instructions to update Spyder don’t work in this case because there are some incompatible dependencies between Spyder 5.0.5 and 5.1.5.

To workaround this problem, you need to close Spyder and run the following commands in the Anaconda Prompt (or your system terminal on Linux or macOS):

conda remove spyder
conda remove python-language-server
conda update anaconda
conda install spyder=5.1.5

The second or third commands (i.e. conda remove python-language-server or conda update anaconda) could give you errors, but that’s fine. Simply ignore them and continue with the other commands.

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