I am trying to remove all traces of an environment so that I can set it up again. Unfortunately, conda thinks that the environment is active no matter how many times I type conda deactivate.

I’m using Windows.

Here’s what I have-

(jupyter) H:>conda deactivate

H:>conda remove jupyter --all

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


H:>conda env list
# conda environments:
#
base                     C:Userst57731AppDataLocalminiforge3
2015052                  C:Userst57731AppDataLocalminiforge3envs2015052
2015052-2                C:Userst57731AppDataLocalminiforge3envs2015052-2
2024045                  C:Userst57731AppDataLocalminiforge3envs2024045
2024077                  C:Userst57731AppDataLocalminiforge3envs2024077
20240xx                  C:Userst57731AppDataLocalminiforge3envs20240xx
ccds                     C:Userst57731AppDataLocalminiforge3envsccds
jupyter                  C:Userst57731AppDataLocalminiforge3envsjupyter
jupyter2                 C:Userst57731AppDataLocalminiforge3envsjupyter2

Similarly, switching to a different environment poses the same issue:

H:>conda activate base

(base) H:>conda remove jupyter --all

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