Conda: List available package updates

PIP has a command pip list --outdated which lists all packages, where a newer version is available. Conda has conda search --outdated which lists all available versions and conda list which shows the currently installed version of each package.

This script retrieves the output from conda list and conda search --outdated, parses it and generates a list of packages where the installed version does not match the newest version available via conda.

Usage

The output should then resemble something like this:

In some cases the installed version is higher than the “Newest” version. This may be the case for packages installed with PIP that are not yet available via conda.