Tutorial to learn the steps involve in the installation of Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy JellyFish and 20.04 Focal Fossa using command terminal.
What is Jupyter Notebook?
The Jupyter Project is a non-profit initiative that aims to develop and provide open-source software and open standards for interactive work. One of the most famous products of the project is Jupyter Notebook. It is software for sharing and creating interactive worksheets that work on the client-server principle. In a Jupyter notebook, numbers, text, graphics, and executable program code can be combined and made available to users. Other products include JupyterLab, JupyterHub, and Voilà.
The Jupyter project originated in 2014 as a spin-off from the iPython project. The name Jupyter is composed of the first letters of the programming languages Julia, Python and R. Jupyter also supports numerous other languages such as C++, Ruby, Haskell, PHP, Java, and many others via so-called kernels. The user accesses a notebook on a Jupyter notebook server via a web browser and can interact with the data and information. The format of the Jupyter Notebooks is the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format. It allows cross-functional collaboration.
Steps to install on Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04
1. Requirements
To perform this tutorial we need Ubuntu or its based Linux systems with a non-root sudo access user and Python environment.
2. Perform Ubuntu 22.04/20.04 system update
Bef0re moving further, first perform the system update that will rebuild the APT package manager cache.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
3. Install Python3 & PIP3
The latest version of Python is 3, available to install via the official repository of Ubuntu 22.02 or 20.04. Because we need a Python environment to install and use Jupyter Notebook. Therefore, first, install it.
sudo apt install python3
Also, we need a PIP package manager to install Jupyter Notebook, hence get that as well.
sudo apt install python3-pip
3. Upgrade PIP and install virtualenv
Once the above-given commands are completed, both Python3 and PIP3 will be on your system. Now, let’s first upgrade our system’s default PIP version to the latest one.
sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip
After that also install virtualenv package, a tool for creating isolated virtual python environments.
sudo pip3 install virtualenv
6. Create a Python virtual environment for Jupyter
Instead of installing Jupyter globally, let’s create an isolated Python environment for it. Therefore, here we are creating our project directory called – demo you can name the folder whatever you want.
mkdir demo
Create a new Virtual environment inside the folder.
cd demo
Let’s give it a name- notebookenv, of course, you can assign a name whatever you want.
virtualenv notebookenv
Now, activate and load the created python environment for your current shell.
source notebookenv/bin/activate
You will see that your bash shell has been switched to your created environment.
5. Install Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04
Finally, use Python’s PIP package manager to install the Jupyter on your Ubuntu Linux for the created environment.
pip install jupyter
6. Jupyter Notebook Web interface
Once the installation is completed, execute the given command that will open the web interface on your local browser to access your Jupyter Notebook project.
jupyter notebook
To create a new notebook file, select New > Python 3 given on the right side and start writing your code.
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