The way to uninstall Miniconda
2024-02-19
2022-08-15
I tried to uninstall Miniconda 3 and reinstall it with pyenv, but I failed because some configuration remained.
Delete the directory
Show the path of the virtual environment with the below command:
terminal
$ conda env list
# conda environments:
#
base * /Users/[user]/opt/anaconda3
Delete the directory for Miniconda.
terminal
$ rm -rf ~/opt/miniconda3
Delete the configuration
Delete the configuration .bash_profile and .zshrc from when installed.
terminal
$ nano ~/.zshrc
The configuration to delete is surrounded by the commented out messages.
.zshrc
# >>> conda initialize >>>
...
# <<< conda initialize <<<
Delete the related files
terminal
$ rm -rf ~/.condarc ~/.conda ~/.continuum
Delete the environment variables
terminal
$ env | grep CONDA
CONDA_EXE=/Users/[user]/opt/miniconda3/bin/conda
_CE_CONDA=
CONDA_PYTHON_EXE=/Users/[user]/opt/miniconda3/bin/python
CONDA_SHLVL=3
CONDA_PREFIX=/Users/[user]/opt/miniconda3/envs/[environment]
CONDA_DEFAULT_EXE=[environment]
CONDA_PROMPT_MODIFIER=([environment])
CONDA_PREFIX_1=/Users/[user]/anaconda3
CONDA_PREFIX_1=/Users/[user]/opt/miniconda3
If these variables remain, you will fail to reinstall. Delete the variables with the below command:
terminal
$ unset CONDA_XXX
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