Uninstalling a preinstalled python package from Databricks
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08-02-2023 08:55 AM
[Datasets](https://pypi.org/project/datasets/) python package comes preinstalled on databricks clusters. I want to uninstall it or completely prevent it's installation when I create/start a cluster.
I couldn't find any solution on stackoverflow.
And I have tried !pip uninstall datasets in a notebook. It throws the below error
```
Found existing installation: datasets 2.12.0
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
Can't uninstall 'datasets'. No files were found to uninstall.
```
Can someone guide on what to do here ?
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08-04-2023 08:00 AM
@Retired_mod note that you can't actually uninstall packages in the runtime with pip.

