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 the problem that Jupyter didn't find a file (complete error message in German):

Start : Dieser Befehl kann aufgrund des folgenden Fehlers nicht ausgeführt werden: Das System kann die angegebene
Datei nicht finden.
In Zeile:1 Zeichen:1
+ Start "file:///home/nico/.local/share/jupyter/runtime/nbserver-1164-o ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Start-Process], InvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperationException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartProcessCommand

Jupyter did work, but it didn't open my browser, when I typed jupyter notebook.

I found a very simple solution to this:

1. Create the Jupyter Config file:

touch $HOME/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py

2. Now add the following line (by using nano or any other text editor):

c.NotebookApp.use_redirect_file = False

Now my WSL2 uses the wslview command to open the default browser in Windows. (I think)

If wslview . does nothing, you might need to manually install wslu.