pip3 install of jupyter issues: 'notebook' is not a Jupyter command

Question

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 and installed jupyter using pip3 install jupyter as described on the jupyter.org website.

The install appeared to work without issue. There were no missing zeromq references as reported in some other forum posts.

But I had two issues:

There's no jupyter command installed. I launched jupyter using:

python3 ~/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/jupyter.py notebook

The app failed to start after issuing the following message:
```
jupyter: 'notebook' is not a Jupyter command.
```

I prefer to keep the install fairly minimal so I'm avoiding going the anaconda route.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 30 '16 at 10:55

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Playing around a little bit I discovered the .local/bin directory (apparently my linux sys admin knowledge needs an update).

Running jupyter out of ~/.local/bin seems to work fine.

edited Apr 30 '16 at 10:55

David Foerster

answered Apr 24 '16 at 20:06

M. Krajnak

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If you are using pip install with --user option then you should add ~/.local/bin to your $PATH – jfs Apr 24 '16 at 21:15
Yes, understanding where it was installed was the difficult part. Incidentally I ran pip from my user account without --user and the install was still in .local, I assume because the account I ran from didn't have root permissions. – M. Krajnak Apr 30 '16 at 03:03
the upstream pip issue is still open. Though Ubuntu's version defaults to --user outside virtualenv since Ubuntu 15.04. See LP #1419695. – jfs Apr 30 '16 at 03:38

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