Conda: cannot remove intel channel

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Whenever I try to install a package (using libmamba as solver), I get the message:

Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): failed

UnavailableInvalidChannel: HTTP 403 FORBIDDEN for channel intel <https://conda.anaconda.org/intel>

I know this channel is not alive any more. However, if I try to remove it using:

$ conda config --remove channels intel

I get:

CondaKeyError: 'channels': value 'intel' not present in config

Indeed, the intel channel does not appear in the list of channels:

$ conda config --show channels
channels:
  - defaults
  - conda-forge
  - nvidia
  - pytorch

And it is not present in my .condarc file.

So, How can I remove the intel channel from the list of channels and get rid of the error message issued by limamba?

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Hi , welcome to the forum! The solver may be finding channels that aren’t specifically configured based on packages that were originally installed from the intel channel. I would try cleaning your package cache first with:

conda clean --all

If that doesn’t resolve it, you could also see if you can see intel listed with any package:

conda list --show-channel-urls

If a package is shown with intel as the channel, you could then uninstall it, update it, or pin it to a specific version on a different channel.

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Thank you very much for your reply (I apologize for the delay; I thought I would receive an email notifying me that someone had replied, so I didn’t check the forum regularly).

I removed the cache, then conda list (the --show-channel-urls option did not change the output) showed indeed some packages provided by the intel channel:

# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
intelpython               2023.2.0                      0    intel
libsqlite                 3.42.0               h2797004_0    intel
libstdcxx-ng              12.2.0              h46fd767_19    intel
libuuid                   2.38.1               h0b41bf4_0    intel
libxml2                   2.10.3               h6b0140f_0    intel
libzlib                   1.2.13               hd590300_5    intel
python                    3.10.12              hef7c979_1    intel
python_abi                3.10                    2_cp310    intel
pytorch                   2.0.1               py310_xpu_0    intel
zlib                      1.2.13               hd590300_5    intel

So I wanted to uninstall them. But it is impossible, due to the intel channel again. For instance:

$ conda uninstall intelpython
Channels:
 - defaults
 - conda-forge
 - nvidia
 - pytorch
 - bioconda
 - intel
Platform: linux-64
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): failed

UnavailableInvalidChannel: HTTP 403 FORBIDDEN for channel intel <https://conda.anaconda.org/intel>

The channel is not accessible or is invalid.

You will need to adjust your conda configuration to proceed.
Use `conda config --show channels` to view your configuration's current state,
and use `conda config --show-sources` to view config file locations.

It’s the same with conda remove instead of conda uninstall.
One more thing: the output of conda info does not mention intel at all.
So I cannot figure out what tells conda to use it as a channel.