Installation

The following is a quick start overview of installing the Jupyter Notebook and kernels. For detailed installation instructions for individual Jupyter or IPython projects, please see the documentation and/or GitHub repos of the individual projects listed here.

Installing the Jupyter Notebook

Note

We’re still in the process of releasing Jupyter, and these instructions are being prepared for when it is released. In the meantime, we recommend installing IPython 3 to use the notebook.

While the Jupyter Notebook allows users to run code in many different programming language, the Notebook itself is implemented in Python.

If you already have Python, you can install the notebook using pip:

pip install jupyter

If you’re new to Python, we recommend installing Anaconda, a Python distribution which includes Jupyter. After you install it, ensure that Jupyter is up to date by running:

conda update jupyter

To upgrade from IPython 3 or older to Jupyter, use pip or conda—according to which one IPython was installed with—to install the jupyter package. This should install the Jupyter Notebook and upgrade IPython to version 4.

Installing kernels

Installing the Jupyter Notebook should also have installed the IPython kernel for the Python programming language.

To run notebooks in other languages, you’ll need to install additional kernels: see the list of available kernels.