How To Install Jupyter Notebook Using PIP

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Jupyter notebooks are pretty much necessary to get going with data science using python or R.

Here is the way you can install it using PIP

Step 1: Create a virtual environment.

Run following command in the command prompt.

pip install virtualenv

This will install a package called virtualenv, which can be used to create a virtual environment.

To make sure that virtualenv was installed successfully, run following command.

virtualenv --version

Good! Now let’s create a virtual environment.

virtualenv virtualenv_name

It is as simple as that!!

I highly prefer using git bash(If you are using windows).

Now that you have created the virtual environment, you can activate it by…..

$ source ml_env/Scripts/activate

If there is the name of virtual environment you just created in the brackets, then the environment is activated and you are good to go!

Step2: Installing Jupyter lab and jupyter notebook

First, we need to make sure that you have IPyKernel installed.

Use the command…

pip install ipykernel

To install it.

Then its time to install Jupyterlab.

Run…

pip install jupyterlab

Woohoo!! You can now open up Jupyter lab and run python notebooks.

Next step is to finally install Jupyter notebook.

pip install notebook

And done!!

Fire up jupyter notebook!

Notebook generally opens on Pout 8888, so make sure that other software won’t clash with it.

If you are facing any problems, please mention them in the comment…..

Thank you!