Deactivate conda's base environment on startup
When opening a terminal session, conda activates the base environment by default. If you want to prevent this default behaviour, you have three ways: Trick #1 : Set the auto_activate_base parameter to false Trick #2 : Add conda deactivate in your bash configuration file Trick #3 : Comment out some part of the conda initialisation code block in your bash configuration file NOTES: I'm working with conda version 4.7.5 and miniconda3 (it should also work with anaconda ). These tricks also worked with conda version 4.6.14 After installing conda 4.7, conda added this block of code in my ~/.bash_profile : This is the block of code that we will modify in the following tricks Trick #1: set auto_activate_base to false Per conda's instructions, "if you'd prefer that conda's base environment not be activated on startup, set the auto_activate_base parameter to false". Thus, enter the following command in a terminal: c...