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Removing Conda environment

I want to remove a certain environment created with conda. How can I achieve that? Let's say I have an active testenv environment. I tried, by following documentation, with:

$ conda env remove

CondaEnvironmentError: cannot remove current environment. deactivate and run conda remove again

I then deactivate it:

$ source deactivate

I try running again the command to remove it and I still get the same error. What is going wrong here?

over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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Use source deactivate to deactivate the environment before removing it, replace ENV_NAME with the environment you wish to remove:

source deactivate
conda env remove -n ENV_NAME
over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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First you have to deactivate your environment before removing it. You can remove conda environment by using the following command

Suppose your environment name is "sample_env" , you can remove this environment by using

source deactivate    
conda remove -n sample_env --all

'--all' will be used to remove all the dependencies

over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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First deactivate the environment and come back to the base environment. From the base, you should be able to run the command conda env remove -n <envname>. This will give you the message

Remove all packages in environment C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\{envname}:

over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Environments created with the --prefix or -p flag must be removed with the -p flag (not -n).

For example: conda remove -p </filepath/myenvironment> --all, in which </filepath/myenvironment> is substituted with a complete or relative path to the environment.

over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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My environment name is: test

conda remove -n test --all
over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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After making sure your environment is not active, type:

$ conda env remove --name ENVIRONMENT
over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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You probably didn't fully deactivate the Conda environment - remember, the command you need to use with Conda is conda deactivate (for older versions, use source deactivate). So it may be wise to start a new shell and activate the environment in that before you try. Then deactivate it.

You can use the command

conda env remove -n ENV_NAME

to remove the environment with that name. (--name is equivalent to -n)

Note that you can also place environments anywhere you want using -p /path/to/env instead of -n ENV_NAME when both creating and deleting environments, if you choose. They don't have to live in your conda installation.

UPDATE, 30 Jan 2019: From Conda 4.6 onwards the conda activate command becomes the new official way to activate an environment across all platforms. The changes are described in this Anaconda blog post

over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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This worked for me:

conda env remove --name tensorflow
over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Because you can only deactivate the active environment, so conda deactivate does not need nor accept arguments. The error message is very explicit here.

Just call conda deactivate https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/7296#issuecomment-389504269

over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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To remove complete conda environment :

conda remove --name YOUR_CONDA_ENV_NAME --all

over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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You may try the following: Open anaconda command prompt and type

conda remove --name myenv --all

This will remove the entire environment.

Further reading: docs.conda.io > Manage Environments

over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Official documentation way worked for me:

conda remove --name myenv --all

Or just conda env remove --name myenv.

To verify that the environment was removed, in your terminal window or an Anaconda Prompt, run:

conda info --envs

The environments list that displays should not show the removed environment.

You anaconda3 enviroments folder might list an empty folder of deleted environment in your anaconda3 installation folder, like:

/opt/anaconda3/envs
over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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There're 3 ways to achieve this in total. Assuming you have a environment named myenv,

  1. conda env remove --name myenv, -n is shortcut for --name.

  2. conda remove --name myenv --all.

  3. Delete the env folder directly. (Not recommended)

    # list environments and their locations
    conda env list
    # or
    # conda info --envs
    
    # delete the folder listed
    rm -rf /Users/username/.local/share/conda/envs/myenv
    

If you wanna delete the environment without a prompt to let you check again. Use -y, shortcut for --yes. (For global use check silent prompt in conda)

conda env remove -n myenv -y
conda remove -n myenv --all -y

References

  • conda env --help
  • conda remove --help
over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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on terminal it's showing

(base) [root@localhost ~]#

simply hit command : conda deactivate

and you are out of conda env , now your prompt will look like

[root@localhost ~]#

over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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View the environments in Anaconda or miniconda:

conda env list

If you have created an environment using name then use:

conda remove -n envname --all

if you have created an environment using prefix then use:

conda remove -p [path] --all

Change the envname with your environment name and in case of prefix provide the complete path of the environment eg: C:/Users/techv/Desktop/project/env.
--all will remove all the dependencies of the target environment.

I hope this answer will be helpful.

over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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if you are unfamiliar with the command line , you can remove it using the anaconda dashboard

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over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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In my windows 10 Enterprise edition os this code works fine: (suppose for environment namely testenv)

conda env remove --name testenv
over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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if you are in base:

(base) HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~$ 

remove env_name by:

conda env remove -n env_name

if you are already in env_name environment :

(env_name) HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~$ 

deactivate then remove by :

conda deactivate
conda env remove -n env_name
over 3 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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