The Way to Install Python Jupyter Notebook: the difference between pip install notebook (recommended) and pip install jupyter
Jul. 10, 2024
As described in its official GitHub repository1, Python Jupyter Notebook can be locally installed easily by:
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pip install notebook
and then wen can launch it with:
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jupyter notebook
By the way, for my case, I found a small warning printed in the CMD:
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[W 2024-07-10 10:42:11.503 ServerApp] jupyter_nbextensions_configurator | error adding extension (enabled: True): The module 'jupyter_nbextensions_configurator' could not be found (No module named 'jupyter_nbextensions_configurator'). Are you sure the extension is installed?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "G:\Spyder\Python311\mmy_venv\Lib\site-packages\jupyter_server\extension\manager.py", line 323, in add_extension
extpkg = ExtensionPackage(name=extension_name, enabled=enabled)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "G:\Spyder\Python311\mmy_venv\Lib\site-packages\jupyter_server\extension\manager.py", line 187, in __init__
self._load_metadata()
File "G:\Spyder\Python311\mmy_venv\Lib\site-packages\jupyter_server\extension\manager.py", line 202, in _load_metadata
raise ExtensionModuleNotFound(msg) from None
jupyter_server.extension.utils.ExtensionModuleNotFound: The module 'jupyter_nbextensions_configurator' could not be found (No module named 'jupyter_nbextensions_configurator'). Are you sure the extension is installed?
which prompts that module jupyter_nbextensions_configurator2 hasn’t installed. To solve this problem, I just need to install it by:
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pip install jupyter_nbextensions_configurator
Then, when I execute jupyter notebook this warning disappears.
Some references also say that users can use another command to install Jupyter Notebook3, i.e.:
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pip install jupyter
Yes, it works. However, I didn’t found more information about the difference between command pip install notebook and pip install jupyter, but just some trivial clues.
As for installing Jupyter Notebook, command pip install notebook is recommended, not only in official GitHub repository1, but also in official documentation4. While for command pip install jupyter, I just found some information about it in PyPi website5:
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pip install jupyter
Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.
Project description: Install the Jupyter system, including the notebook, qtconsole, and the IPython kernel.
So, my understanding of this is, easily speaking, packages installed by pip install notebook are just for supporting Jupyter Notebook, which is just a subset (one product) of complete Jupyter ecosystem installed by pip install jupyter. To verify this point, I respectively create two clean virtual environments6 to test what packages both commands install specifically, and the results show in the following table.
In the table, two packages in bold blue, pip and setuptools, are built-in packages when creating virtual environment by venv module6. In addition to these two packages, command pip install notebook (two columns on the right-hand side) installs 91 packages, which are the exactly same as those installed by pip install jupyter (two columns on the left-hand side). Besides, pip install jupyter installs 7 other packages which are marked in bold green, i.e. ipywidgets, jupyter, jupyter-console, jupyterlab_widgets, qtconsole, QtPy, and widgetsnbextension (whose information can be got by pip show command).
So, that’s it.
All in all, if only install Jupyter notebook, it is a better choice to follow the official instruction, that is using command pip install notebook.
pip install jupyter (100 packages) |
Version | pip install notebook (93 packages) |
Version |
|---|---|---|---|
(1) anyio |
4.4.0 | (1) anyio |
4.4.0 |
(2) argon2-cffi |
23.1.0 | (2) argon2-cffi |
23.1.0 |
(3) argon2-cffi-bindings |
21.2.0 | (3) argon2-cffi-bindings |
21.2.0 |
(4) arrow |
1.3.0 | (4) arrow |
1.3.0 |
(5) asttokens |
2.4.1 | (5) asttokens |
2.4.1 |
(6) async-lru |
2.0.4 | (6) async-lru |
2.0.4 |
(7) attrs |
23.2.0 | (7) attrs |
23.2.0 |
(8) Babel |
2.15.0 | (8) Babel |
2.15.0 |
(9) beautifulsoup4 |
4.12.3 | (9) beautifulsoup4 |
4.12.3 |
(10) bleach |
6.1.0 | (10) bleach |
6.1.0 |
(11) certifi |
2024.7.4 | (11) certifi |
2024.7.4 |
(12) cffi |
1.16.0 | (12) cffi |
1.16.0 |
(13) charset-normalizer |
3.3.2 | (13) charset-normalizer |
3.3.2 |
(14) colorama |
0.4.6 | (14) colorama |
0.4.6 |
(15) comm |
0.2.2 | (15) comm |
0.2.2 |
(16) debugpy |
1.8.2 | (16) debugpy |
1.8.2 |
(17) decorator |
5.1.1 | (17) decorator |
5.1.1 |
(18) defusedxml |
0.7.1 | (18) defusedxml |
0.7.1 |
(19) executing |
2.0.1 | (19) executing |
2.0.1 |
(20) fastjsonschema |
2.20.0 | (20) fastjsonschema |
2.20.0 |
(21) fqdn |
1.5.1 | (21) fqdn |
1.5.1 |
(22) h11 |
0.14.0 | (22) h11 |
0.14.0 |
(23) httpcore |
1.0.5 | (23) httpcore |
1.0.5 |
(24) httpx |
0.27.0 | (24) httpx |
0.27.0 |
(25) idna |
3.7 | (25) idna |
3.7 |
(26) ipykernel |
6.29.5 | (26) ipykernel |
6.29.5 |
(27) ipython |
8.26.0 | (27) ipython |
8.26.0 |
| (28) ipywidgets | 8.1.3 | ||
(29) isoduration |
20.11.0 | (28) isoduration |
20.11.0 |
(30) jedi |
0.19.1 | (29) jedi |
0.19.1 |
(31) Jinja2 |
3.1.4 | (30) Jinja2 |
3.1.4 |
(32) json5 |
0.9.25 | (31) json5 |
0.9.25 |
(33) jsonpointer |
3.0.0 | (32) jsonpointer |
3.0.0 |
(34) jsonschema |
4.23.0 | (33) jsonschema |
4.23.0 |
(35) jsonschema-specifications |
2023.12.1 | (34) jsonschema-specifications |
2023.12.1 |
| (36) jupyter | 1.0.0 | ||
(37) jupyter_client |
8.6.2 | (35) jupyter_client |
8.6.2 |
| (38) jupyter-console | 6.6.3 | ||
(39) jupyter_core |
5.7.2 | (36) jupyter_core |
5.7.2 |
(40) jupyter-events |
0.10.0 | (37) jupyter-events |
0.10.0 |
(41) jupyter-lsp |
2.2.5 | (38) jupyter-lsp |
2.2.5 |
(42) jupyter_server |
2.14.1 | (39) jupyter_server |
2.14.1 |
(43) jupyter_server_terminals |
0.5.3 | (40) jupyter_server_terminals |
0.5.3 |
(44) jupyterlab |
4.2.3 | (41) jupyterlab |
4.2.3 |
(45) jupyterlab_pygments |
0.3.0 | (42) jupyterlab_pygments |
0.3.0 |
(46) jupyterlab_server |
2.27.2 | (43) jupyterlab_server |
2.27.2 |
| (47) jupyterlab_widgets | 3.0.11 | ||
(48) MarkupSafe |
2.1.5 | (44) MarkupSafe |
2.1.5 |
(49) matplotlib-inline |
0.1.7 | (45) matplotlib-inline |
0.1.7 |
(50) mistune |
3.0.2 | (46) mistune |
3.0.2 |
(51) nbclient |
0.10.0 | (47) nbclient |
0.10.0 |
(52) nbconvert |
7.16.4 | (48) nbconvert |
7.16.4 |
(53) nbformat |
5.10.4 | (49) nbformat |
5.10.4 |
(54) nest-asyncio |
1.6.0 | (50) nest-asyncio |
1.6.0 |
(55) notebook |
7.2.1 | (51) notebook |
7.2.1 |
(56) notebook_shim |
0.2.4 | (52) notebook_shim |
0.2.4 |
(57) overrides |
7.7.0 | (53) overrides |
7.7.0 |
(58) packaging |
24.1 | (54) packaging |
24.1 |
(59) pandocfilters |
1.5.1 | (55) pandocfilters |
1.5.1 |
(60) parso |
0.8.4 | (56) parso |
0.8.4 |
| (61) pip | 24.0 | (57) pip | 24.0 |
(62) platformdirs |
4.2.2 | (58) platformdirs |
4.2.2 |
(63) prometheus_client |
0.20.0 | (59) prometheus_client |
0.20.0 |
(64) prompt_toolkit |
3.0.47 | (60) prompt_toolkit |
3.0.47 |
(65) psutil |
6.0.0 | (61) psutil |
6.0.0 |
(66) pure-eval |
0.2.2 | (62) pure-eval |
0.2.2 |
(67) pycparser |
2.22 | (63) pycparser |
2.22 |
(68) Pygments |
2.18.0 | (64) Pygments |
2.18.0 |
(69) python-dateutil |
2.9.0.post0 | (65) python-dateutil |
2.9.0.post0 |
(70) python-json-logger |
2.0.7 | (66) python-json-logger |
2.0.7 |
(71) pywin32 |
306 | (67) pywin32 |
306 |
(72) pywinpty |
2.0.13 | (68) pywinpty |
2.0.13 |
(73) PyYAML |
6.0.1 | (69) PyYAML |
6.0.1 |
(74) pyzmq |
26.0.3 | (70) pyzmq |
26.0.3 |
| (75) qtconsole | 5.5.2 | ||
| (76) QtPy | 2.4.1 | ||
(77) referencing |
0.35.1 | (71) referencing |
0.35.1 |
(78) requests |
2.32.3 | (72) requests |
2.32.3 |
(79) rfc3339-validator |
0.1.4 | (73) rfc3339-validator |
0.1.4 |
(80) rfc3986-validator |
0.1.1 | (74) rfc3986-validator |
0.1.1 |
(81) rpds-py |
0.19.0 | (75) rpds-py |
0.19.0 |
(82) Send2Trash |
1.8.3 | (76) Send2Trash |
1.8.3 |
| (83) setuptools | 65.5.0 | (77) setuptools | 65.5.0 |
(84) six |
1.16.0 | (78) six |
1.16.0 |
(85) sniffio |
1.3.1 | (79) sniffio |
1.3.1 |
(86) soupsieve |
2.5 | (80) soupsieve |
2.5 |
(87) stack-data |
0.6.3 | (81) stack-data |
0.6.3 |
(88) terminado |
0.18.1 | (82) terminado |
0.18.1 |
(89) tinycss2 |
1.3.0 | (83) tinycss2 |
1.3.0 |
(90) tornado |
6.4.1 | (84) tornado |
6.4.1 |
(91) traitlets |
5.14.3 | (85) traitlets |
5.14.3 |
(92) types-python-dateutil |
2.9.0.20240316 | (86) types-python-dateutil |
2.9.0.20240316 |
(93) typing_extensions |
4.12.2 | (87) typing_extensions |
4.12.2 |
(94) uri-template |
1.3.0 | (88) uri-template |
1.3.0 |
(95) urllib3 |
2.2.2 | (89) urllib3 |
2.2.2 |
(96) wcwidth |
0.2.13 | (90) wcwidth |
0.2.13 |
(97) webcolors |
24.6.0 | (91) webcolors |
24.6.0 |
(98) webencodings |
0.5.1 | (92) webencodings |
0.5.1 |
(99) websocket-client |
1.8.0 | (93)websocket-client |
1.8.0 |
| (100) widgetsnbextension | 4.0.11 |
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pip show ipywidgets jupyter jupyter-console jupyterlab_widgets qtconsole QtPy widgetsnbextension
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Name: ipywidgets
Version: 8.1.3
Summary: Jupyter interactive widgets
Home-page: http://jupyter.org
Author: Jupyter Development Team
Author-email: jupyter@googlegroups.com
License: BSD 3-Clause License
Location: G:\Spyder\Python311\mmy_env\Lib\site-packages
Requires: comm, ipython, jupyterlab-widgets, traitlets, widgetsnbextension
Required-by: jupyter
---
Name: jupyter
Version: 1.0.0
Summary: Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.
Home-page: http://jupyter.org
Author: Jupyter Development Team
Author-email: jupyter@googlegroups.org
License: BSD
Location: G:\Spyder\Python311\mmy_env\Lib\site-packages
Requires: ipykernel, ipywidgets, jupyter-console, nbconvert, notebook, qtconsole
Required-by:
---
Name: jupyter-console
Version: 6.6.3
Summary: Jupyter terminal console
Home-page:
Author:
Author-email: Jupyter Development Team <jupyter@googlegroups.com>
License: BSD 3-Clause License
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Location: G:\Spyder\Python311\mmy_env\Lib\site-packages
Requires: ipykernel, ipython, jupyter-client, jupyter-core, prompt-toolkit, pygments, pyzmq, traitlets
Required-by: jupyter
---
Name: jupyterlab_widgets
Version: 3.0.11
Summary: Jupyter interactive widgets for JupyterLab
Home-page: https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets
Author: Jupyter Development Team
Author-email: jupyter@googlegroups.com
License: BSD-3-Clause
Location: G:\Spyder\Python311\mmy_env\Lib\site-packages
Requires:
Required-by: ipywidgets
---
Name: qtconsole
Version: 5.5.2
Summary: Jupyter Qt console
Home-page: http://jupyter.org
Author: Jupyter Development Team
Author-email: jupyter@googlegroups.com
License: BSD
Location: G:\Spyder\Python311\mmy_env\Lib\site-packages
Requires: ipykernel, jupyter-client, jupyter-core, packaging, pygments, pyzmq, qtpy, traitlets
Required-by: jupyter
---
Name: QtPy
Version: 2.4.1
Summary: Provides an abstraction layer on top of the various Qt bindings (PyQt5/6 and PySide2/6).
Home-page: https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy
Author: Colin Duquesnoy and the Spyder Development Team
Author-email: spyder.python@gmail.com
License: MIT
Location: G:\Spyder\Python311\mmy_env\Lib\site-packages
Requires: packaging
Required-by: qtconsole
---
Name: widgetsnbextension
Version: 4.0.11
Summary: Jupyter interactive widgets for Jupyter Notebook
Home-page: http://jupyter.org
Author: Jupyter Development Team
Author-email: jupyter@googlegroups.com
License: BSD 3-Clause License
Location: G:\Spyder\Python311\mmy_env\Lib\site-packages
Requires:
Required-by: ipywidgets
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