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, epsommum...@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.