JupyterLab installation on server

Note:

• if you just want to connect to JupyterLab via web browser see Connecting to Jupyterlab

The following should be performed on a Compute Canada instance not your local machine

• Prerequisites:
  • need to have virtualenv, source, python3, pip
• For the follwing replace [path] with the path that you want to place JupyterLab. In the past it was /media/data
• Create new Python virtual environment
  • virtualenv --no-download [path]/jupyter_lab
• Activate your newly created Python virtual environment
  • source [path]/jupyter_lab/bin/activate
• Install JupyterLab in your new virtual environment
  • pip install --no-index –-upgrade pip
  • pip install --no-index jupyterlab
• Create a script that launches JupyterLab
  • echo -e '#!/bin/bash\nunset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR\njupyter-lab --ip $(hostname -f) --no-browser --allow-root' > $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/jupyterlab.sh
• Next make that script executable
  • chmod u+x $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/jupyterlab.sh
• Start JupyterLab
  • Starting JupyterLab

Notes

• See this documentation for more information
• Please update the docs if this process changes