How do I remove pyenv virtualenvs

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How do I go about removing all these virtual environments? I don't know where the directories are

Have you checked that topic ? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11005457/how-do-i-remove-delete-a-virtualenv — Henry Mont, Dec 01 '20 at 19:57
Yes. I don't know where these virtualenv's directories are. All I know about them is what they are called. — alois, Dec 01 '20 at 20:05
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score 40 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '20 at 20:48

Assuming that list came from running pyenv virtualenvs, you should be able to run

pyenv uninstall 3.8.2/envs/greenhouse

to remove the 3.8.2/envs/greenhouse environment.

The environments themselves should be subdirectories of whatever pyenv root returns when you run it. Try doing cd $(pyenv root) and then looking in the versions/ and versions/{version}/envs/ subdirectories.

See the documentation for more details.

score 20 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 10 '22 at 11:12

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You can also use: pyenv virtualenv-delete <venv-name> - Delete Virtual Environment

answered Nov 10 '22 at 11:12

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 20 '22 at 13:30

Adding to Chris's answer, you might also need to delete the local .python-version:

$ pyenv uninstall 3.8.12/envs/test_venv 
pyenv-virtualenv: remove /home/user1/.pyenv/versions/3.8.12/envs/test_venv? (y/N) y
$ python -V
pyenv: version 'test_venv' is not installed (set by /home/user1/.python-version)
$ rm .python-version 
rm: remove regular file '.python-version'? y
$ python -V
Python 3.8.12

How do I remove pyenv virtualenvs

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