Conda cannot remove environment called “tensorflow”

Question

I just run the following command to create a Conda environment:

conda create -n tensorflow python=3.5

However, I want to delete it now. When I try doing:

conda remove -n tensorflow

or

conda remove --name tensorflow

I get the following error:

CondaValueError: no package names supplied,
       try "conda remove -h" for more details

However, if I try and see which environments I have, I can see:

base                  *  C:\Users\Me\Anaconda3
flask_env                C:\Users\Me\Anaconda3\envs\flask_env
tensorflow               C:\Users\Me\Anaconda3\envs\tensorflow

My idea is that I have called the environment with the same name of the package tensorflow.. even though I don't have tensorflow installed in the "base" environment

Answer 1

I would try:

conda env remove --name tensorflow

Which forces conda to only consider environments, since a

conda remove

command can also be used to remove packages. I suspect conda is being tripped up by the fact that tensorflow is a package name and an environment name.