Stuck at Solving Environment on Anaconda

I am running OSX Catalina. After downloading Anaconda, I'm having trouble downloading external packages. I tried in both the GUI and the terminal, but the process keeps getting stuck at "Solving environment".

I understand creating a new environment can be a workaround, but I would rather fix the issue at hand.

Any ideas?

Solution 1:

The following steps may work to resolve the issue.

conda config --remove channels conda-forge
conda config --add channels conda-forge

if it doesn't work then try this

conda update conda

if nothing works try seeing this github solution, it worked for many.

Solution 2:

use this:

conda config --set channel_priority strict

pay attention that it is channel_priority and not priority_channel