What is CondaSSLError?
The error message you're encountering, "CondaSSLError: OpenSSL appears to be unavailable on this machine. OpenSSL is required to download and install packages," suggests that Conda, a package management and environment management system, is unable to find or use OpenSSL on your machine.
What is OpenSSL?
OpenSSL is a library that provides encryption, decryption, and various other security-related functions. Conda uses OpenSSL for secure communication when downloading and installing packages from remote repositories.
Here are a few steps you can try to resolve this issue:
- Copy below two files libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll and libssl-1_1-x64.dll from path where anaconda is installed in your system (e.g. C:\Anaconda\Library\bin).
- Paste it inside anaconda installed directory's DLLs folder (e.g. C:\Anaconda\DLLs).