newEnv.md

How to create a new env for a jupyter workspce

1. Ensure that the requirement for working with envs are installed sudo apt install python3-venv

2. Work out the python version you want to work with python --version or python3 --version or which python

3. Once you have chosen the python version cd to the directory you want the env to be stored in

4. run /path/to/my/python3 -m venv nameOfEnv of course this may just be python not python3

   • in my case /usr/bin/python3

5. Then activate the env with source nameOfEnv/bin/activate

6. Install the IPython Kernel (nameOfEnv)$ pip install ipykernel

7. Install the env to jupyter notebook (nameOfEnv)$ python -m ipykernel install --user --name nameOfEnv --display-name "Python3.x (nameOf)"

8. When inside the env use pip install package_name and not other variations

9. if it exists then pip install -r requirements.txt

Ta-da

It should now appear as kernel in the jupyter lab interface