New conda env update error on Paperspace

Part 1 (2018)
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I can’t find answer that helps so far, so reposting this issue. My machine was working fine, until I did a recent update. Setup a new machine, and get this error after running conda env update. Any thoughts?

$ conda env update
Using Anaconda API: https://api.anaconda.org
Fetching package metadata …
Solving package specifications: .
Invalid requirement: ‘torchtext=0.2.3’
= is not a valid operator. Did you mean == ?

CondaValueError: pip returned an error.

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I fixed the above, but the jupyter notebook link doesn’t work. It says its refuses to connect. I copied the link and replaced the localhost with my IP address. Any help?