We need a full stack trace to understand what is happening. It’s likely that your conda Python configuration is interfering with the Python environment that Julia setup for itself.
Use conda deactivate until you have a normal prompt without “(base)” or any other environment in the prefix.
Also considering moving or removing your current ~/.julia to start fresh.
Then do the following. Notice we are not explicitly installing Jupyter since installing IJulia.jl does that for us.
ENV["PYTHON"] = ""
using Pkg
pkg"add PyCall"
pkg"build PyCall"
pkg"add IJulia"
pkg"build IJulia"
Running julia /home/aaportel/.julia/packages/IJulia/AQu2H/src/kernel.jl may give some initial hints. Please copy the entire output to here. We can hopefully figure iut what is preventing IJulia from precompiling.
What we are trying to do is to let julia setup it’s own conda environment within ~/.julia/conda This way when you install IJulia it will install exactly the Python packages it needs to function, no more and no less.
My recommedation is to use Julia 1.7 at the moment, simply because we just released 1.8. 1.8 should work but we are just starting to widely deploy it.