Removing Conda environment

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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

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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

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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  lt envname gt   This will give you the message   Remove all packages in environment  C  Users  lt username gt  AppData Local Continuum anaconda3 envs  envname

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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

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There re 3 ways to achieve this in total  Assuming you have a environment named myenv    conda env remove --name myenv  -n is shortcut for --name  conda remove --name myenv --all  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

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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

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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

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After making sure your environment is not active  type     conda env remove --name ENVIRONMENT

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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

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To remove complete conda environment   conda remove --name YOUR CONDA ENV NAME --all

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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  lt  filepath myenvironment gt  --all  in which  lt  filepath myenvironment gt  is substituted with a complete or relative path to the environment

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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

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My environment name is  test  conda remove -n test --all

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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

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This worked for me   conda env remove --name tensorflow

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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

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