# Help with Interact and Jupyter notebook

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-with-interact-and-jupyter-notebook/49116
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [October 27, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-with-interact-and-jupyter-notebook/49116 "2020-10-27T12:01:53Z")
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### Author: ![shashankchahar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@shashankchahar](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/shashankchahar)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-with-interact-and-jupyter-notebook/49116/1 "2020-10-27T12:01:53Z")

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I am new to Julia and have been trying to run Interact but it seems that Interact is not able to generate widgets on my machine.

I did the following steps:

- Install Julia
- Pkg.add(“IJulia”)
- Pkg.add(“Interact”)
- Pkg.add(“WebIO”)
- Run WebIO.install\_jupyter\_nbextension()
- Run a Jupyter notebook.

The following screenshot shows the error I get - truncated for brevity. Any ideas what is going wrong?

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/3/8/3834afe86f8e5575e504b7f43e8560a53c55d61c.png)

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### Author: ![cojua8](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cojua8/32/11882_2.png) [@cojua8](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cojua8)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-with-interact-and-jupyter-notebook/49116/2 "2020-10-28T02:03:30Z")

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Hi and welcome!,

This is not an answer to your problem, but a recommendation to use `Pluto.jl` [https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl](https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl), which is an amazing package to create julia notebooks.

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### Author: ![shashankchahar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@shashankchahar](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/shashankchahar)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2020, 10:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-with-interact-and-jupyter-notebook/49116/3 "2020-10-28T10:54:20Z")

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Thanks, I will try it out.

I did manage to resolve it. For someone else facing this issue, I did a complete uninstall (complete wipe-out) and install and it worked.

For anaconda, I uninstalled it by removing all configuration files etc. I followed Option B in the link below:  
[https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/uninstall/](https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/uninstall/)

For Julia:

- I deleted the installation
- Deleted the .julia folder in C:\Users\<username\>.julia
- Deleted registry associated with Julia
- Deleted Julia folder in C:\Users\<username\>\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia 1.5.2