How To Install Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Jupyter Notebook is an open-source and cross-platform application to share code, text, or visual effects with users. The tool can be used with several languages, including Python, Julia, R, Haskell, and Ruby. Its aim is to develop open-source software, open standards, and services for interactive computing across multiple programming languages.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Ubuntu 22.04, 20.04, 18.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish

Step 1. It’s always a good practice to start with an updated system to ensure that you have the latest security patches and bug fixes. Open your terminal and run the following commands to update the package lists and upgrade the installed packages:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install curl gnupg2 gnupg wget software-properties-common

Step 2. Installing Python.

Jupyter Notebook is based on Python, so you will need to install Python on your server. Let’s run the command below to install default Python to your Ubuntu system:

sudo apt install python3 python3-pip

Once installation is complete, be sure to confirm the version of Python installed on your system:

python3 --version
pip3 --version

Next, update PIP to the latest version with the following command:

pip3 install --upgrade pip

After that, install the Python virtual environment package with the following command below:

pip3 install virtualenv

For additional resources on installing and managing Python, read the post below:

• How to install Python on Ubuntu Linux √

Step 3. Installing Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 22.04.

By default, Jupyter is not available on the Ubuntu 22.04 base repository. First, create a directory and create a virtual environment inside it:

mkdir ~/project
cd ~/project
virtualenv notebookenv

Next, activate the virtual environment using the following command:

source notebookenv/bin/activate

Finally, install the Jupyter Notebook with the following command below:

pip install jupyter

Step 4. Accessing Jupyter Notebook Web Interface.

Once successfully installed, you can launch its web interface from the terminal with the help of the following command:

jupyter notebook

This will automatically launch the web browser with Jupyter Notebook running:

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Jupyter. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Jupyter website.