Jupyter notebook - can't install

Question

pip install jupyterlab --user   

ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/xxx/Library/Python/2.7'
Check the permissions.    

Doesn't work.

So I tried

pip install --user jupyter

Same error:

ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/xxx/Library/Python/2.7'

And so I tried

pip install jupyterlab

Same error!!

Any idea what might be causing this? It's infuriating: .( help appreciated.

Answer 1

Try with:

sudo pip install jupyterlab

Answer 2

Why don't you try installing JupyterLab using miniconda ?

Install miniconda

• wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-4.5.4-MacOSX-x86_64.pkg
• Install the above-downloaded pkg to the default location (/miniconda3)
• Add miniconda to path export PATH="/miniconda3/bin:/miniconda3/share/jupyter/lab/staging/node_modules/.bin:$PATH"

Create Conda Env and Install JupyterLab

• source ~/.bash_profile
• conda create -n jlab python=3.6.8 jupyterlab
• conda activate jlab
• conda install -c conda-forge jupyterlab=2

Start the server

• jupyter lab