https://community.databricks.com/t5/get-started-discussions/uninstalling-a-preinstalled-python-package-from-databricks/m-p/39121#M5590 <P><a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/9">@Retired_mod</a>&nbsp;note that you can't actually uninstall packages in the runtime with pip.</P> Fri, 04 Aug 2023 15:00:58 GMT sean_owen 2023-08-04T15:00:58Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/get-started-discussions/uninstalling-a-preinstalled-python-package-from-databricks/m-p/38947#M5587 <P>[Datasets](<A href="https://pypi.org/project/datasets/" target="_blank">https://pypi.org/project/datasets/</A>) python package comes preinstalled on databricks clusters. I want to uninstall it or completely prevent it's installation when I create/start a cluster.</P><P>I couldn't find any solution on stackoverflow.<BR />And I have tried !pip uninstall datasets in a notebook. It throws the below error</P><P>```<BR />Found existing installation: datasets 2.12.0<BR />Not uninstalling datasets at /databricks/python3/lib/python3.10/site-packages, outside environment /local_disk0/.ephemeral_nfs/envs/pythonEnv-some-long-uu-id-I-have-hidden<BR />Can't uninstall 'datasets'. No files were found to uninstall.<BR />```</P><P>Can someone guide on what to do here ?</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 02 Aug 2023 15:55:31 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/get-started-discussions/uninstalling-a-preinstalled-python-package-from-databricks/m-p/38947#M5587 KrishZ 2023-08-02T15:55:31Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/get-started-discussions/uninstalling-a-preinstalled-python-package-from-databricks/m-p/39121#M5590 <P><a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/9">@Retired_mod</a>&nbsp;note that you can't actually uninstall packages in the runtime with pip.</P> Fri, 04 Aug 2023 15:00:58 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/get-started-discussions/uninstalling-a-preinstalled-python-package-from-databricks/m-p/39121#M5590 sean_owen 2023-08-04T15:00:58Z