Jupyter Setup

Jupyter Setup

While Jupyter runs code in many programming languages, Python is a requirement (Python 3.3 or greater, or Python 2.7) for installing the classic Jupyter Notebook.

Windows

Install Anaconda (it has most of the packages we need) from here. (Read the instructions carefully)
Open command prompt (Press Windows button and type ‘cmd’)
Enter the following command to run

jupyter notebook  

(or you can directly launch in Anaconda Navigator)

MacOS

Install Anaconda (it has most of the packages we need) from here. (Read the instructions carefully)
Open terminal and enter the following command to run

jupyter notebook  

Linux distribution (includes Ubuntu)

Installing Jupyter - Using Conda or Miniconda

Install Anaconda (it has most of the packages we need) from here. (Read the instructions carefully)
Open terminal (Press CTRL + ALT + T)
Enter the following command to run

jupyter notebook  

Installing Jupyter - Using python-pip (Try this only if you are comfortable with terminal)

Python is usually pre-installed in Linux distribution.
If you are using Ubuntu 16.04 then the pre-installed python versions are 2.7.12 and 3.5.2.
To check your python version, type 'python3' in terminal. If it doesn't work, 'python'.

1. Confirm that your python version is 3.6+.
   If not, install python from https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.2/Python-3.8.2.tar.xz
   or use the following command in terminal

sudo apt install python3.8;  

2. Install pip using

sudo apt install python3-pip;  

3. Install jupyter and other important packages using

pip3 install bs4 requests jupyter scipy astropy matplotlib;  

4. Enter the following command to run notebook

jupyter notebook;