add local channel to .condarc on windows

Question

I want to add local channel to conda on my windows machine. I added to required line in my .condarc file, my file look like:

channels:
  - C:\Users\sofirx077029\Desktop\cache\
  - defaults

auto_update_conda: true
always_yes: false
show_channel_urls: true
changeps1: true
add_pip_as_python_dependency: true
use_pip: true
offline: false
allow_softlinks: false
anaconda_upload: false

I created the cache folder and put there some conda packages, which I download from Anaconda Repo.

now for example when I tried to install conda package:

conda install xlrd

I get this in my command windows:

C:\Users\sofirx077029>conda install xlrd Fetching package metadata .... WARNING: The remote server could not find the noarch directory for the requested channel with url: file:///C:/Users/sofirx077029/Desktop/cache

It is possible you have given conda an invalid channel. Please double-check your conda configuration using conda config --show.

If the requested url is in fact a valid conda channel, please request that the channel administrator create noarch/repodata.json and associated noarch/repodata.json.bz2 files, even if noarch/repodata.json is empty. $ mkdir noarch $ echo '{}' > noarch/repodata.json $ bzip2 -k noarch/repodata.json ......... Solving package specifications: .

Package plan for installation in environment C:\Users\sofirx077029\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3:

The following NEW packages will be INSTALLED:

xlrd: 1.0.0-py36_0 defaults

Proceed ([y]/n)? n

Exiting

In my .condarc I also tried:

channels:
  - file:///C:/Users/sofirx077029/Desktop/cache
  - defaults

It is clear by the warning that my channel is invalid, I should I do that? Please help, what I'm doing wrong? Thanks very much