This thingy is boring

[Anonymous1468-cop]

Description

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Pressing the update button.
It's ANNOYING!!!
It also said this:
^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'start_installation'

Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\python\Lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\application\container.py", line 330, in _check_updates_ready
    self.application_update_status.start_installation(
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'start_installation'

Versions

• Spyder version: 5.5.1 (conda)
• Python version: 3.12.4 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.15.2
• PyQt5 version: 5.15.10
• Operating System: Windows-11-10.0.22631-SP0

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
atomicwrites >=1.2.0             :  1.4.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0                  :  4.0.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0              :  2.2.1 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0             :  2.6.0 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111      :  20200713 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2             :  3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=8.13.0,<9.0.0,!=8.17.1 :  8.25.0 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2,<0.20.0            :  0.18.1 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7                  :  1.0.1 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0               :  4.19.2 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0                 :  24.3.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0                  :  7.10.0 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0                 :  1.7.0 (OK)
paramiko >=2.4.0                 :  2.8.1 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0,<0.9.0             :  0.8.3 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0                  :  4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4                :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                     :  5.9.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                   :  2.15.1 (OK)
pylint >=2.5.0,<3.1              :  2.16.2 (OK)
pylint_venv >=3.0.2              :  3.0.3 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0              :  0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.10.0,<1.11.0           :  1.10.0 (OK)
pylsp_black >=2.0.0,<3.0.0       :  2.0.0 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=3.2.0,<3.3.0        :  3.2.3 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.2.2                :  0.2.2 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.2.1                :  1.2.2 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.5.1,<5.6.0         :  5.5.1 (OK)
qtpy >=2.1.0                     :  2.4.1 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7                    :  1.0.1 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0              :  69.5.1 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                   :  7.3.7 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=2.5.0,<2.6.0    :  2.5.0 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0             :  4.2.1 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1              :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3                :  4.0.1 (OK)
zmq >=22.1.0                     :  25.1.2 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                    :  None (NOK)
matplotlib >=3.0.0               :  3.8.4 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                      :  1.26.4 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1                   :  2.2.2 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                   :  1.13.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                    :  1.12 (OK)

[spyder-bot]

Thanks for reporting. You need to manually update Spyder to fix this problem.

To do that, please close Spyder, open the Anaconda Prompt (on Windows) or a terminal (on macOS or Linux) and run there

conda install spyder=6

[Anonymous1468-cop]

how do I get to the Anaconda Prompt?

[ccordoba12]

It's not clear how you installed Spyder. If you used Anaconda, then you need to go to the Windows Start menu and look for Anaconda Prompt.

But if you used Miniconda or Miniforge, there should be a prompt associated to them too. In that case, you just need to look for prompt in the Start menu.