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I have recently been pulling my hair out trying to organize my conda environments. I ended up reinstalling miniconda and I'm in a good spot.

My question is this, when I run conda env list I get:

# conda environments:
#
base                  *  /Users/rheft/miniconda3
sonny36                  /Users/rheft/miniconda3/envs/sonny36

I would expect "root" to be included here. Further more when I look at my conda environments from inside jupyter notebooks there are 3 environments listed. 

root         -- /Users/rheft/miniconda3
miniconda3   -- /Users/rheft/miniconda3
sonny36      -- /Users/rheft/miniconda3/envs/sonny36

My question is why is it that root doesn't show when I run conda env list? Although everything works correctly, I would like to remove the duplicated environment if possible, any suggestions?

Many thanks!

JustTryingNotToFail
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root is the old (pre-conda 4.4) name for the main environment; after conda 4.4, it was renamed to be base. Most likely the reason you have a Jupyter environment named root is because you have a kernel installed with that name in it.

darthbith
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  • As per your comment above. Running `jupyter kernelspec list` returns 3 availble kernels: `python3`, `sonny`, `sonny36`. Im not sure where the "python3" came from, but "sonny" was an old conda enviroment I had before I nuked the entire thing to start over... I can research myself, but do you know of any easy way to remove these? For cleanliness sake. Thanks for the answer as well! – JustTryingNotToFail Oct 02 '18 at 11:05