How to manage conda list environments

Python Faysal Shuvo

A conda environment is a directory that contains collections of conda packages that you have installed. If you want to change or activate or deactivate the environment you can easily do this.

So, In this article we are going to talk about how to manage these installed conda list environments.


You can use an anaconda prompt or terminal for the following steps: 

1. Create an environment: 

conda create --name myenv 

replace myenv with the environment name you want to create. 

conda will ask you to proceed, type y: 

proceed ([y]/n)?

myenv environment will create in /envs/. No packages will be installed in this environment.

2. Create an environment with a specific version of python: 

conda create -n myenv python=3

3. Delete conda environment 

conda remove --name myenv --all

4. List conda environment: 

conda info --envs 
conda env list 

5. List package in conda environment:

conda list -n <my_env>

I hope after reading this article you will get an idea about how to manage conda list environments. If you have any feedback, questions about this article you can comment below