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Is it possible to install Jupyter Notebook through apt-get install? For example, we can install numpy by using apt-get install python-numpy.

karel
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Ubuntu 22.04 and later

sudo apt install epiphany jupyter-notebook

Create jupyter_notebook_config.py by:

jupyter notebook --generate-config # type y for yes at the prompt

Then open ~/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py for editing in a text editor and change:

# c.NotebookApp.browser = ''

to:

c.NotebookApp.browser = '/usr/bin/epiphany'

Don't forget to delete the # at the beginning of the line so it's not a comment anymore. You can use a different web browser if you don't like Web as long as it's not a snap package and you change the path from /usr/bin/epiphany to the path to your web browser which you can find by running a command of the form which my-web-browser.

It still won't work though, so you have to do one more step. Change the ownership of the ~/.local/share/jupyter directory from root to user. Instead of user in the below command replace it with your own username that you login with.

sudo chown -R user:user ~/.local/share/jupyter

Ubuntu 20.04

Open the terminal and type:

sudo apt install jupyter-notebook jupyter # jupyter is optional

Ubuntu 18.04-19.10

Open the terminal and type:

sudo apt install python3-notebook jupyter jupyter-core python-ipykernel

To start the notebook server run the following command:

jupyter notebook

You should see Jupyter Notebook open in your web browser.

Ubuntu 17.04 and 17.10

In Ubuntu 17.04 and later Jupyter Notebook is available in the default Ubuntu repositories and can be quickly and easily installed using apt. Open the terminal and type:

sudo apt install jupyter-notebook jupyter-core python-ipykernel

python-ipykernel is necessary for running Python 2.x programs in Jupyter Notebook, which otherwise supports only Python 3.x.

To start the notebook server run the following command:

jupyter notebook

You should see Jupyter Notebook open in your web browser

Ubuntu 16.04 and earlier

Google Colaboratory is Google's free Jupyter notebook environment that requires no setup and runs entirely in the cloud.

karel
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    I get following error: $jupyter notebook Error executing Jupyter command 'notebook': [Errno 2] No such file or directory – Boba Fit Feb 21 '19 at 10:33
  • The command jupyter-troubleshoot will help you to troubleshoot this problem. – karel Feb 21 '19 at 10:42
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    I removed a lot of python packages and reinstalled them. Now it works, but I dont know why. But thats fine for me. Thank you. – Boba Fit Feb 21 '19 at 19:09
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    You also need apt-get install jupyter-notebook, as suggested here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42648610/error-when-executing-jupyter-notebook-no-such-file-or-directory – Felix Jun 04 '19 at 14:49
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    Ubuntu 20.04 users can use the 18.04 command above, but should not include python-ipykernel. – mike Aug 31 '20 at 23:15
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    Looks like in 20.04 apt-get install jupyter-notebook is enough. – dmvianna Jun 07 '21 at 22:26
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I installed it using

pip install jupyter

(pip3 if Python3 is installed; also, ensure you have root access, i.e. logged in to the terminal as root@...)

and for python dependencies

apt-get install build-essential python3-dev

In ubuntu desktop 14.04.3 LTS. I am on python3.

RolandiXor
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Ashu
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Install it using

sudo -H pip install jupyter

After installation completes, use the following command 

jupyter notebook
em_bis_me
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Based on official recommendation here we should use:

python -m pip install jupyter
python3 -m pip install jupyter

After this command and all of the previous I had a problem with permission error. To resolve it we should use next command:

python -m pip install jupyter --user
python3 -m pip install jupyter --user
Vasyl Lyashkevych
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sudo -H pip3 install jupyter (with pip3, not pip) worked for me after numerous other approaches. I did this on the ubuntu linux with python 3.5.3 built into lavano chromebook c330. Also installed spyder and numerous favorite commands like "locate".

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  • This answer is a duplicate of this existing answer: https://askubuntu.com/questions/737094/jupyter-notebook-installation/1005871#1005871 – karel Aug 14 '19 at 03:44
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It doesn't appear to be possible using only apt-get.

apt-file find jupyter ## returns no results

For 16.04:

sudo apt-get install python-pip
pip install --upgrade pip ## secret sauce -- pip fails otherwise
sudo pip install jupyter

then

jupyter notebook

Replace 'pip' with 'pip3' for use with Python3.

Brent Bradburn
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