Issue with Installing Anaconda packages

Question

I'm trying to install into anaconda a pywinauto package which I downloaded from conda-forge. However I keep getting this error

C:\>C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\python.exe -m conda install C:\Users\beh\pywinaut-0.6.6-py36_0.tar.bz2

Downloading and Extracting Packages
* None: ####################################################################################################### | 100%
Preparing transaction: done
Verifying transaction: done
Executing transaction: - WARNING conda.gateways.disk:exp_backoff_fn(49): Uncaught backoff with errno EEXIST 17
failed
ERROR conda.core.link:_execute(481): An error occurred while installing package 'None'.
PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied')
Attempting to roll back.

Rolling back transaction: done

PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied')
FileExistsError(17, 'Cannot create a file when that file already exists')

My org's firewall restrictions block access to conda or pip and thus I have to download the packages separately and install with conda install

Appreciate help in resolving this.

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Edit: Realise that this happens with All packages. Appreciate any help.

Answer 1

Have you activated your environment using conda activate envname, replacing envname with your environment name?

Then try calling the conda install with conda install C:\Users\beh\pywinaut-0.6.6-py36_0.tar.bz2. You shouldn't need the extra python path on that line