Updating Anaconda Navigator from Version 1.x to Version 2.x

 Once Anaconda sits on your computer, the updates start to annoy you.  If you ignore them long enough, however, they don't go away.  Eventually, the upgrades will no longer be simple.  For three of my MacOS computers, I first installed Anaconda 1.x, and for the home iMac I basically tore out my original installation in order to upgrade to Anaconda 2.x.  Upgrading from 1.x to 2.x need not be that drastic.  I discovered a procedure that works at a website

https://appdividend.com/2022/01/19/how-to-update-anaconda-upgrade-anaconda-navigator/

This procedure relies on entering line-commands in a terminal window, which you open within Anaconda Navigator.  Just go to the base environment and open a Terminal, rather than search for a Jupyter Notebook or a Python window.  In this Terminal, you might need to first update the conda app to its latest version

conda update conda

or

conda update -n base -c defaults conda

Then update Anaconda itself to a specific version, tied to a year and month, e.g., 

conda update anaconda=2022.10

or  

conda install anaconda=2022.10

In one case I installed the new Anaconda first, because the condo update hung the computer.

That metapackage represents the pinned state that has undergone testing as a collection.
If you want to update all the packages under conda distribution, you can use the following command.
conda update --all
The conda update –all will upgrade everything. This updates all packages in the current environment to the latest version.