How to upgrade scikit-learn package in anaconda

Question

I am trying to upgrade package of scikit-learn from 0.16 to 0.17. For that I am trying to use binaries from this website: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#scikit-learn. I have Windows 7 x64 bit. I downloaded the relevant package locally and gave following commands and got Requirement already up-to-date:

C:\Users\skumar>pip install --upgrade --use-wheel --no-index --find-links=../../
SOURCE/APPS scikit-learn
Ignoring indexes: https://pypi.python.org/simple
Requirement already up-to-date: scikit-learn in c:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages

Then I tried to upgrade it from remote site and got similar result:

C:\Users\skumar>pip install --upgrade --use-wheel --no-index --trusted-host www.
lfd.uci.edu --find-links=http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ scikit-learn

Ignoring indexes: https://pypi.python.org/simple
Requirement already up-to-date: scikit-learn in c:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages

On Remote site there are two versions i.e., 0.16 & 0.17. Is there a way to specify version in command? Or how do you install/upgrade wheel file?

Answer 1

I would suggest using conda. Conda is an anconda specific package manager. If you want to know more about conda, read the conda docs.

Using conda in the command line, the command below would install scipy 0.17.

conda install scipy=0.17.0

Answer 2

Anaconda comes with the conda package manager which is designed to handle these kinds of upgrades. Start by updating conda itself to get the most recent package lists:

conda update conda

And then install the version of scikit-learn you want

conda install scikit-learn=0.17

All necessary dependencies will be upgraded as well. If you have trouble with conda on Windows, there are some relevant FAQ here: http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/faq

Answer 3

Following Worked for me for scikit-learn on Anaconda-Jupyter Notebook.

Upgrading my scikit-learn from 0.19.1 to 0.19.2 in anaconda installed on Ubuntu on Google VM instance:

Run the following commands in the terminal:

First, check existing available packages with versions by using:

conda list    

It will show different packages and their installed versions in the output. Here check for scikit-learn. e.g. for me, the output was:

scikit-learn              0.19.1           py36hedc7406_0  

Now I want to Upgrade to 0.19.2 July 2018 release i.e. latest available version.

conda config --append channels conda-forge
conda install scikit-learn=0.19.2

As you are trying to upgrade to 0.17 version try the following command:

conda install scikit-learn=0.17

Now check the required version of the scikit-learn is installed correctly or not by using:

conda list 

For me the Output was:

scikit-learn              0.19.2          py36_blas_openblasha84fab4_201  [blas_openblas]  conda-forge

Note: Don't use pip command if you are using Anaconda or Miniconda

I tried following commands:

!conda update conda 
!pip install -U scikit-learn

It will install the required packages also will show in the conda list but if you try to import that package it will not work.

On the website http://scikit-learn.org/stable/install.html it is mentioned as: Warning To upgrade or uninstall scikit-learn installed with Anaconda or conda you should not use the pip.

Answer 4

So to upgrade scikit-learn package, you have to follow below process

Step-1: Open your terminal(Ctrl+Alt+t)

Step-2: Now for checking currently installed packages along with the versions installed on your conda environment by typing conda list

Step-3: Now for upgrade type below command

conda update scikit-learn

Hope it helps!!

Answer 5

If you are using Jupyter in anaconda, after conda update scikit-learn in terminal, close anaconda and restart, otherwise the error will occur again.