# Conda Enviroments are not Showing up in JupyterLab Kernel Selection

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/conda-enviroments-are-not-showing-up-in-jupyterlab-kernel-selection/20841>\
**Category:** Kernels\
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**Created:** [August 10, 2023, 6:30am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/conda-enviroments-are-not-showing-up-in-jupyterlab-kernel-selection/20841 "2023-08-10T06:30:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 10, 2023, 6:30am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/conda-enviroments-are-not-showing-up-in-jupyterlab-kernel-selection/20841/1 "2023-08-10T06:30:36Z")

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On my development VM (CentOS) I switched from base python and JupyterLab (web version) to miniconda and JupyterLab (web version). Now I’m struggling to be able to switch to different environments.

1. I Installed miniconda

2. I uninstalled the original Jupyter installation with:

`/usr/bin/python36 -m pip uninstall -y jupyter jupyter_core jupyter-client jupyter-console jupyterlab_pygments qtconsole notebook nbconvert nbformat nbclassic nbclient jupyterlab-widgets jupyter-events jupyter-server jupyter-server-terminals`

1. Purged ~/.jupyter/
2. Installed jupyter on miniconda with: `conda install -c conda-forge notebook`
3. Installed nb\_conda\_kernels to manage conda environments from jupyter with:`conda install -c conda-forge nb_conda_kernels`
4. Created a test env with ‘conda create --name test\_1’

This environment shows up with `conda env list` but even after restarting JupyterLab, the only two options I have in the Kernel selector are:

- `Python 3 (ipykernel)`
- `python [conda env:root]*`

no `test_1` environment

On Start up nb\_conda\_kernels tells me it found only 1 Kernel

Also on a sidenote, the extension manager still shows some old extensions from the Old Installation, so it seems some stuff got moved over. I used `jupyter --paths` to find and delete remnants of these old extensions, but they still show up in the extension manager.