# Jupyter and Jupytext through IJulia.jl (Jupytext does not really work)

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jupyter-and-jupytext-through-ijulia-jl-jupytext-does-not-really-work/116330
**Category:** Jupyter-Notebook
**Tags:** jupyter, configuration, conda, conda-forge, jupytext
**Created:** [June 28, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jupyter-and-jupytext-through-ijulia-jl-jupytext-does-not-really-work/116330 "2024-06-28T01:12:11Z")
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#### Post date: [July 3, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jupyter-and-jupytext-through-ijulia-jl-jupytext-does-not-really-work/116330/4 "2024-07-03T15:07:59Z")

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# jupyter / jupyter-lab / jupyter-lab (howto)

Installing `jupyter` by means of `IJulia` seems like a trap. If I do it, I am not able to make `jupytext` work with `jupyter-notebook` or `jupyter-lab`. So what worked for me follows.

- In any folder you can run:
  - `sudo aura -A miniconda3` # aura is my AUR package installer, use yours instead
  - `sudo ln -s /opt/miniconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh /etc/profile.d/conda.sh`
  - `echo "[-f /opt/miniconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh] && source /opt/miniconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh" >> ~/.bashrc` # I use bash, if you use zsh adapt

- Reopen the terminal, so it updates the variables, and then run in any folder:
  - `conda create -n myenv jupyter jupytext` # you can give a better name than myenv
  - `conda activate myenv` # not sure if the next steps need conda activated, but we will keep it for the rest of the steps

- The IJulia is still needed to create the Julia Kernel. If you install it locally to an environment (like I do, I never install packages to the global Julia environment), you will need to put the path to the environment in the kernel specification (and basically use one kernel per project).
- So in the folder that you will use as environment for the Julia notebooks do:
  - `julia --project=. -e 'using Pkg: Pkg; Pkg.add("IJulia");'` # will not ask to install jupyter this way, if it asks then refuse
  - `julia --project=. -e 'using IJulia: IJulia; IJulia.installkernel("Julia My Kernel Name", "-O2", "--project=$(pwd())", env=Dict("LD_LIBRARY_PATH" => ""))'` # the LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH=“” comes from an annoying bug of Julia in Arch Linux

- And then finally:
  - `jupyter-lab`

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