ImportError: cannot import name 'ensure_dir_exists'

Question

I update the Jupyter notebook from the old version to latest 5.3.1. However, when I try to launch the notebook from anaconda, it throws an import error: I tried to remove an

Answer 1

update jupyter core

pip install jupyter-core --upgrade

this working for me in Anaconda3 with python 3.6

Answer 2

If you've installed jupyter using pip3.

pip3 install --upgrade jupyter_core jupyter_client

Answer 3

I've met the same problem when I use ipython notebook .

After I tried upgrade jupyter, then I tried reinstall the ipython. The import error seem fixed.

pip3 uninstall ipython

pip3 install ipython

Answer 4

When I tried to install R the notebook was upgraded to 5.3.1 and same problem appeared, however the highest vote answer apparently didn't work for me.

What I did was:

conda uninstall jupyter notebook

then:

conda install jupyter notebook

and the problem solved with the old version.

Answer 5

You need to update jupyter_core and jupyter_client manually from your terminal:

conda update jupyter_core jupyter_client

Answer 6

I had a similar issue on Ubuntu after installing RStudio on my system. To solve it, first I tried @MichaelCara suggestion to update jupyter. However, after that I got the following new message error:

ImportError: libsodium.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

which I solved installing libsodium as explained here.

In short:

conda update jupyter_core jupyter_client jupyter_console
conda install libsodium