jupyter notebook, lab etc. installing extensions magic, paths etc.
It all started with the menu bar disappearing on qutebrowser but not firefox:
Broke everything when trying to fix it, leading to not working vim bindings in lab. Now I have vim bindings back and can live without the menu I guess.
It took 4h of very frustrating trial and error that I don’t want to document anymore, but - the solution to get vim bindings inside jupyterlab was to use the steps for installing through jupyter of the extension for notebooks, not the recommended lab one.
Installation · lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding Wiki:
mkdir -p $(jupyter --data-dir)/nbextensions/vim_binding
jupyter nbextension install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding/master/vim_binding.js --nbextensions=$(jupyter --data-dir)/nbextensions/vim_binding
jupyter nbextension enable vim_binding/vim_binding
I GUESS the issue was that previously I didn’t use --data-dir, and tried to install as-is, which led to permission hell. Me downgrading -lab at some point also helped maybe.
The recommended jupyterlab-vim package installed (through pip), was enabled, but didn’t do anything: jwkvam/jupyterlab-vim: Vim notebook cell bindings for JupyterLab.
Also, trying to install it in a clean virtualenv and then doing the same with pyenv was not part of the solution and made everything worse.
Useful bits
Getting paths for both -lab and classic:
> jupyter-lab paths
Application directory: /home/sh/.local/share/jupyter/lab
User Settings directory: /home/sh/.jupyter/lab/user-settings
Workspaces directory: /home/sh/.jupyter/lab/workspaces
> jupyter --paths
config:
/home/sh/.jupyter
/home/sh/.local/etc/jupyter
/usr/etc/jupyter
/usr/local/etc/jupyter
/etc/jupyter
data:
/home/sh/.local/share/jupyter
/usr/local/share/jupyter
/usr/share/jupyter
runtime:
/home/sh/.local/share/jupyter/runtime
Removing ALL packages I had locally:
pip uninstall --yes jupyter-black jupyter-client jupyter-console jupyter-core jupyter-events jupyter-lsp jupyter-server jupyter-server-terminals jupyterlab-pygments jupyterlab-server jupyterlab-vim jupyterlab-widgets
pip uninstall --yes jupyterlab nbconvert nbextension ipywidgets ipykernel nbclient nbclassic ipympl notebook
To delete all extensions: jupyter lab clean --all
Related: 230606-1428 pip force reinstall package
Versions of everything
> pip freeze | ag "(jup|nb|ipy)"
ipykernel==6.23.1
ipython==8.12.2
ipython-genutils==0.2.0
jupyter-client==8.2.0
jupyter-contrib-core==0.4.2
jupyter-contrib-nbextensions==0.7.0
jupyter-core==5.3.0
jupyter-events==0.6.3
jupyter-highlight-selected-word==0.2.0
jupyter-nbextensions-configurator==0.6.3
jupyter-server==2.6.0
jupyter-server-fileid==0.9.0
jupyter-server-terminals==0.4.4
jupyter-server-ydoc==0.8.0
jupyter-ydoc==0.2.4
jupyterlab==3.6.4
jupyterlab-pygments==0.2.2
jupyterlab-server==2.22.1
jupyterlab-vim==0.16.0
nbclassic==1.0.0
nbclient==0.8.0
nbconvert==7.4.0
nbformat==5.9.0
scipy==1.9.3
widgetsnbextension==4.0.7
Bad vibes screenshot of a tiny part ofhistory | grep jup
“One of the 2.5 hours I’ll never get back”, Serhii H. (2023). Oil on canvas
Kitty terminal, scrot screenshotting tool, bash.