# Conda 4.6.2 now available

**URL:** <https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/conda-4-6-2-now-available/36>\
**Category:** Python\
**Created:** [February 1, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/conda-4-6-2-now-available/36 "2019-02-01T19:02:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![michaelaye](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openplanetary.discourse.group/michaelaye/32/11_2.png) [@michaelaye](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/u/michaelaye)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/conda-4-6-2-now-available/36/1 "2019-02-01T19:02:47Z")

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After fixing some issues with the big conda 4.6 update, the now available 4.6.2 patch does not taint your environments to be manage-able with 4.6 only, so I recommended getting it now, it really is a lot faster than before.

If it’s not, or worse, even hanging on a task, it could be that you have a case of bit-rot (old conda configurations and such) that is slowing down the system. On one of my machines I had this, and had to reinstall my conda envs, took me only 5 mins though. (Keep your list of required Python packages in a text file to feed to conda for efficiency).

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**Author:** ![michaelaye](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openplanetary.discourse.group/michaelaye/32/11_2.png) [@michaelaye](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/u/michaelaye)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/conda-4-6-2-now-available/36/2 "2019-06-17T21:32:33Z")

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The conda makers acknowledged speed issues with the growing catalog. They are working on a conda 4.7.x version that is indeed faster, but I had issues with my strong requirements on channel sources (I’m forcing numpy, gdal and opencv to come from conda-forge) and that kills the dependency solver. 😕