Bug#1011152: spyder: Console not starting. Spyder alerts : iPython 7.31.1 & qtconsole 5.3.0 not installed. But they are !

[Julian Gilbey]

It's a pleasure!

We cannot write instructions to cover every eventually; that is
effectively impossible.  But it seems like you did the right thing to
sort out your problem, which I am pleased to hear.

Best wishes,

   Julian

On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 07:42:37PM +0200, epsommumule at virgilio.it wrote:
> Thank you very much !
> 
> Your command did not work in Spyder's console on the desktop, first because of
> the 3 at the end of pip, then because pressing the Y key at the prompt did not
> do anything. After googling how to force uninstall I found the command that
> worked for the desktop :
> 
> pip uninstall iPython -y
> 
> (I did not have a local qtconsole package installed)
> 
> In qemu, I typed this in a regular console since no console worked in Spyder :
> 
> python3 -m pip uninstall qtconsole iPython
> 
> Here the prompts accepted my Y presses.
> 
> I then had to do (probably because I closed spyder while it was reporting the
> error messages for a github bug report) :
> 
> killall spyder
> 
> Then Spyder started successfully !
> 
> Too bad your instructions are not included in Spyder's error messages to explain
> to people like me who are not pros what to do to solve such a simple problem !
> 
> Anyway, thank you again !
> 
> P.S. : the mail bounced because this mail address I use for bug reports had not
> been used for too long, and I had to renew the password.