How to remove a package from an Anaconda environment

Removing a package from the wrong Conda environment can leave the project environment unchanged while breaking a different notebook or command shell. Target the environment by name so Conda removes the package from the intended prefix instead of whichever environment happens to be active.

conda remove builds a transaction plan before it changes the environment. The plan can include the requested package and related packages that are no longer needed, so review the package list before confirming the removal.

Use package removal when the environment should stay in place. The --all option removes all packages and the environment itself, and --force-remove can leave an inconsistent environment, so keep those options out of a normal package cleanup.

1. Open a terminal where Conda is available.
2. Check the package record in the target environment.

   $ conda list --name analytics requests
   # packages in environment at /opt/conda/envs/analytics:
   #
   # Name                     Version          Build            Channel
   requests                   2.34.2           py313hd43f75c_0

   Replace analytics with the environment name and requests with the package to remove. If the package appears with a pypi channel or was installed with pip, remove it from inside the same environment with pip uninstall instead.
   Related: How to list packages in an Anaconda environment

3. Remove the package from the target environment.

   $ conda remove --name analytics requests
   Channels:
    - defaults
   Platform: linux-aarch64
   Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
   Solving environment: done
   
   ## Package Plan ##
   
     environment location: /opt/conda/envs/analytics
   
     removed specs:
       - requests
   
   The following packages will be REMOVED:
   
     brotlicffi-1.2.0.0-py313h5b11e9f_0
     cffi-2.0.0-py313h2d8c4a8_1
     charset-normalizer-3.4.4-py313hd43f75c_0
     idna-3.18-py313hd43f75c_0
     pycparser-3.0-py313hd43f75c_0
     pysocks-1.7.1-py313hd43f75c_1
     requests-2.34.2-py313hd43f75c_0
     urllib3-2.7.0-py313hd43f75c_0
   
   Proceed ([y]/n)? y
   Executing transaction: done

   Cancel the transaction if the plan lists packages that the project still needs. Do not add --all unless the whole environment should be deleted.
   Related: How to remove an Anaconda environment

4. Confirm that Conda no longer lists the package.

   $ conda list --name analytics requests
   
   CondaValueError: No packages match 'requests'.