title: How to deal with solving environment installation issue in Anaconda?
body: <p>I'm trying to install OpenCV with Anaconda prompt. I've tried the anaconda and conda-forge versions.</p>
  
  <p>After using the <a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/set-opencv-anaconda-environment/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">article's</a> mentioned command:-</p>
  
  <p>conda install -c menpo opencv</p>
  
  <p>I get the following messages:-</p>
  
  <pre><code>Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
  Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
  Solving environment: failed with repodata from current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source.
  Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
  Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
  Solving environment: /
  Found conflicts! Looking for incompatible packages.
  This can take several minutes.  Press CTRL-C to abort.
  Examining requests-oauthlib:   1%|▎                                                    | 2/347[00:00&lt;00:06, 53.66it/s]\
  Examining py:  44%|████████████████████████████▊                                    | 154/347 [00:00&lt;00:00, 977.99it/s]|
  Examining locket:  83%|█████████████████████████████████████████████████▊          | 288/347 [00:00&lt;00:00, 1078.27it/s]/
  failed
  
  
  UnsatisfiableError: The following specifications were found to be incompatible with each other:
  
  
  
  Package hdf5 conflicts for:
  anaconda==2019.10 -&gt; h5py==2.9.0=py36h5e291fa_0 -&gt; hdf5[version='&gt;=1.10.4,&lt;1.10.5.0a0']
  h5py -&gt; hdf5[version='&gt;=1.10.1,&lt;1.10.2.0a0|&gt;=1.10.2,&lt;1.10.3.0a0|&gt;=1.10.4,&lt;1.10.5.0a0|&gt;=1.8.18,&lt;1.8.19.0a0|&gt;=1.8.18,&lt;1.9.0a0|&gt;=1.8.20,&lt;1.9.0a0']
  hdf5
  opencv -&gt; hdf5[version='&gt;=1.10.2,&lt;1.10.3.0a0|&gt;=1.8.18,&lt;1.8.19.0a0|&gt;=1.8.20,&lt;1.9.0a0']
  anaconda==2019.10 -&gt; hdf5==1.10.4[build='h7ebc959_0|h530792d_0']
  pytables -&gt; hdf5[version='&gt;=1.10.1,&lt;1.10.2.0a0|&gt;=1.10.2,&lt;1.10.3.0a0|&gt;=1.10.4,&lt;1.10.5.0a0|&gt;=1.8.18,&lt;1.8.19.0a0|&gt;=1.8.18,&lt;1.9.0a0']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/j7acK.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Error image</a></p>
  
  <p>Can someone please help with this? I want to run opencv in spyder in Anaconda</p>
  
  <p>conda 4.7.12
  Python 3.7.4
  OS: Win10 x64</p>