Using Jupyter with Windows Subsystem for Linux

Question

Using the Ubuntu bash terminal on Windows 10 (installation instructions here), I installed Anaconda and have been using Jupyter notebooks without a problem. Unfortunately, Jupyt

Answer 1

I had similar issue with browser, I got

No web browser found: could not locate runnable browser.

I installed WSLU https://github.com/wslutilities/wslu. Then I got

Start : This command cannot be run due to the error: The system cannot find the file specified.
At line:1 char:1
+ Start --h
+ ~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Start-Process], InvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperationException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartProcessCommand

jupyter-notebook does not supply url as a parameter to wlsview. It passes a path with file to browser. eg

file:///home/myhome/.local/share/jupyter/runtime/nbserver-5058-open.html

with actual url

    
    
    




    This page should redirect you to Jupyter Notebook. If it doesn't,
    click here to go to Jupyter.

Create a file jupyter-notebook-browser with a content to extract actual url

#!/bin/bash
file=$(echo "$1" | sed 's/file:\/\///')
url=$(grep -oP 'href="\K([^"]*localhost[^"]+)' "$file")
wslview "$url"

then run jupyter-notebook --browser=jupyter-notebook-browser

or define BROWSER variable and run

export BROWSER="jupyter-notebook-browser"
jupyter-notebook