I’m trying to get a more practical grip on data science with Python and thought it would be a good idea to follow a tutorial (hoping to avoid doing lots of troubleshooting). However, I didn’t get very far until the mess started.

I follow this tutorial https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/datascience/data-science-tutorial

As the tutorial suggests, I have installed miniconda, but when trying to create the environment and installing the required packages (step 1 – run the following in an Anacodna command prompt: conda create -n myenv python=3.10 pandas jupyter seaborn scikit-learn keras tensorflow ), I immidiately run in to trouble and get this error:

InvalidArchiveError(“Error with archive C:UsersusernameAppDataLocalminiconda3pkgstensorflow-base-2)

Tried searching for this error, asked copilot for help, but nothing suggested seems to work and I cannot continue the tutorial without it…

Any ideas?

I tried updating Conda using

conda update conda

Tried cleaning up

conda clean --all

Verified that I have full control of the directory.

Ensured I have plenty of free space on the drive.