# Using IJulia with existing Jupyter installation outwith Anaconda

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-ijulia-with-existing-jupyter-installation-outwith-anaconda/38832
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** package, jupyter
**Created:** [May 5, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-ijulia-with-existing-jupyter-installation-outwith-anaconda/38832 "2020-05-05T20:56:29Z")
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### Author: ![leonardthomson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/leonardthomson/32/52500_2.png) [@leonardthomson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/leonardthomson)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2020, 9:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-ijulia-with-existing-jupyter-installation-outwith-anaconda/38832/3 "2020-05-06T09:09:17Z")

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Hi Justin,

I just solved the problem on my own laptop(Mac) after having some troubles.

Just to mention it:  
I tried this in a new virtual environment I only initialized for this!  
(If you need help setting up a new environment, please tell me.)

I will just tell you exactly what I did after activating the new environment.

Set ENV paths (find the right paths with “where python” in terminal and test them (after declaring) via “run(`$(ENV["PYTHON"]) --version`)” in Julia, analogous with jupyter):

ENV[“PYTHON”]=“/path/to/venv/bin/python”  
ENV[“JUPYTER”]= “/path/to/venv/bin/jupyter”

Add and build IJulia:

] add IJulia  
] build IJulia

(to reinsure) Check path to Jupyter:

using IJulia  
IJulia.JUPYTER

Now I updated Julia:

] update

Use IJulia and run notebook:

using IJulia  
notebook()

After updating Julia it was the first time I did not get an Conda import request (install Jupyter via Conda, y/n? [y]: ).

I don’t know wether it was the newly created environment or the Julia update that made it work.  
Hope this works for you as well.

Thomas

see also, for further inspiration:

> [@Add IJulia from the Jupiter installation in Conda](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-ijulia-from-the-jupiter-installation-in-conda/18125):
>
> I am not a programmer. I have only used Matlab and VBA for Excel. I installed Conda to begin learning R and Python. Having discovered Julia, I plan to learn R after Julia. In the documentation I read: To tell IJulia to use your own jupyter installation, you need to set ENV["JUPYTER"] to the path of the jupyter program before running Pkg.add("IJulia") (if jupyter is in your PATH, you can also just use ENV["JUPYTER"]="jupyter" ). I do not know how to set ENV["JUPYTER"] to the path …

> [@Problems with IJulia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-with-ijulia/29617):
>
> Hi I am using Julia 1.2. I have a pre-installed version of anaconda - So before building IJulia I do the following ENV["PYTHON"]="C:\\ProgramData\\Anaconda3\\python" ENV["JUPYTER"]="C:\\ProgramData\\Anaconda3\\Scripts\\jupyter" From hwat I understand this should direct Julia to fins Jupyter and Python ins the desired directories however - using IJulia IJulia.notebook() returns IJulia.notebook() install Jupyter via Conda, y/n? [y]: n I chose no given that I already have working installati…

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