remove kernel on jupyter notebook

Question

How can I remove a kernel from jupyter notebook?

I have R kernel on my jupyter notebook. Recently kernel always dies right after I open a new notebook.

Answer 1

In jupyter notebook run:

!echo y | jupyter kernelspec uninstall unwanted-kernel 

In anaconda prompt run:

jupyter kernelspec uninstall unwanted-kernel

Answer 2

You can delete it in the terminal via:

jupyter kernelspec uninstall yourKernel

where yourKernel is the name of the kernel you want to delete.

Answer 3

Run jupyter kernelspec list to get the paths of all your kernels.
Then simply uninstall your unwanted-kernel

jupyter kernelspec uninstall unwanted-kernel

Old answer
Delete the folder corresponding to the kernel you want to remove.

The docs has a list of the common paths for kernels to be stored in: http://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kernels.html#kernelspecs

Answer 4

If you are doing this for virtualenv, the kernels in inactive environments might not be shown with jupyter kernelspec list, as suggested above. You can delete it from directory:

~/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/

Answer 5

jupyter kernelspec remove now exists, see #7934.

So you can just.

# List all kernels and grap the name of the kernel you want to remove
jupyter kernelspec list
# Remove it
jupyter kernelspec remove <kernel_name>

That's it.

Answer 6

Just for completeness, you can get a list of kernels with jupyter kernelspec list, but I ran into a case where one of the kernels did not show up in this list. You can find all kernel names by opening a Jupyter notebook and selecting Kernel -> Change kernel. If you do not see everything in this list when you run jupyter kernelspec list, try looking in common Jupyter folders:

ls ~/.local/share/jupyter/kernels  # usually where local kernels go
ls /usr/local/share/jupyter/kernels  # usually where system-wide kernels go
ls /usr/share/jupyter/kernels  # also where system-wide kernels can go

Also, you can delete a kernel with jupyter kernelspec remove or jupyter kernelspec uninstall. The latter is an alias for remove. From the in-line help text for the command:

uninstall
    Alias for remove
remove
    Remove one or more Jupyter kernelspecs by name.