environment.yml: ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [WinError 5] Access is denied:

Question

I would like to install a Conda environment with Pip dependencies from an environment.yml file which I have included at the bottom of this post.

However, I get the following error:

Pip subprocess error:
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\me\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-uninstall-8vvj24wt\\normalizer.exe'
Consider using the `--user` option or check the permissions.

The pip-uninstall-8vvj24wt directory appears during installation of the Pip dependencies. How do I resolve this?

name: nb_classification_py310
channels:
  - anaconda
  - conda-forge
  - defaults
dependencies:
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  - aiohttp-retry=2.8.3=pyhd8ed1ab_0
  - aiosignal=1.3.1=pyhd8ed1ab_0
  - amqp=5.1.1=pyhd8ed1ab_0
  - antlr-python-runtime=4.9.3=pyhd8ed1ab_1
  - anyio=3.5.0=py310haa95532_0
  - appdirs=1.4.4=pyh9f0ad1d_0
  - argon2-cffi=21.3.0=pyhd3eb1b0_0
  - argon2-cffi-bindings=21.2.0=py310h2bbff1b_0
  - asttokens=2.0.5=pyhd3eb1b0_0
  - async-timeout=4.0.2=pyhd8ed1ab_0
  - asyncssh=2.13.1=pyhd8ed1ab_0
  - atpublic=3.0.1=pyhd8ed1ab_0
  - attrs=22.2.0=pyh71513ae_0
  - babel=2.11.0=py310haa95532_0
  - backcall=0.2.0=pyhd3eb1b0_0
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  - black=23.3.0=py310h5588dad_0
  - blas=1.0=mkl
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  - bottleneck=1.3.5=py310h9128911_0
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  - celery=5.2.7=pyhd8ed1ab_0
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  - click-plugins=1.1.1=py_0
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  - gstreamer=1.18.5=hd78058f_0
  - hdf5=1.10.6=h1756f20_1
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  - libclang13=14.0.6=default_h8e68704_1
  - libdeflate=1.17=h2bbff1b_0
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  - platformdirs=3.2.0=pyhd8ed1ab_0
  - ply=3.11=py310haa95532_0
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  - pure_eval=0.2.2=pyhd3eb1b0_0
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  - python_abi=3.10=2_cp310
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  - ruamel=1.0=py310haa95532_2
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      - astunparse==1.6.3
      - cachetools==5.3.0
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      - pyasn1==0.4.8
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prefix: C:\Users\me\anaconda3\envs\nb_classification_py310

Answer 1

Turns out I had to find a delete the package responsible for creating the normalizer.exe which was charset-normalizer==3.1.0. Likely conflicting with one that has been installed as a dependency by another package.