Conda virtual environments; handy commands

The following are the handy commands I found for managing conda virtual environments.

Creating a new environment

• conda create -n <environment name>

Renaming a virtual environment

This is not directly possible but a workaround involves 2 steps:

• Create a new virtual environment by cloning the virtual environment
  • conda create -n <new name> --clone <old name>
• Remove the now obsolete environment
  • conda remove -n <old name> --all

Sources:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42231764/how-can-i-rename-a-conda-environment