Hi all,
I create a fastai instance on google cloud plateform following https://course.fast.ai/start_gcp.html
Ran the notebooks, all good.
The fastai version is 1.0.34. I wanted to upgrade it.
I ran (with user jupyter) many commands like:
conda install -c pytorch -c fastai fastai pytorch
I always get the same error:
RemoveError: 'setuptools' is a dependency of conda and cannot be removed from conda's operating environment.
To get rid of the errors and finally update fastai, I had to run those commands:
sudo /opt/anaconda3/bin/conda update --force conda
sudo /opt/anaconda3/bin/conda install -c fastai fastai -c pytorch
Without sudo it was not working, I had permissions errors.
Did I do something wrong? Seems weird I had to use root privileges to update fastai. Or is it normal bc of gcp? Any feedback would be appreciated 
Thank you in advance,
K.
For info, the full list of unsuccessful commands before update conda --force with root:
conda install -c pytorch -c fastai fastai pytorch
conda update --force conda
conda install -c pytorch -c fastai fastai pytorch
conda install -c fastai fastai
conda install -c fastai fastai -c pytorch
sudo /opt/anaconda3/bin/conda install -c fastai fastai -c pytorch
sudo /opt/anaconda3/bin/conda install fastai -c fastai -c pytorch -c conda-forge
sudo /opt/anaconda3/bin/conda install -c fastai fastai
conda update conda
conda deactivate
conda update conda