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renatov
renatov

Reputation: 5095

How do I initialize IPython installed using PIP?

I'm running PepperMint Linux and I've installed IPython using pip but I can't initialize it:

$ ipython
bash: /usr/bin/ipython: No such file or directory

Although pip says it's correctly installed:

$ pip show ipython
---
Name: ipython
Version: 1.2.1
Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Requires:

This folder doesn't seem to have any executable files, only source codes:

$ ls /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython
config          core         extensions   frontend.pyc  __init__.pyc  __main__.py   nbformat  scripts    testing
consoleapp.py   display.py   external     html          kernel        __main__.pyc  parallel  sphinxext  utils
consoleapp.pyc  display.pyc  frontend.py  __init__.py   lib           nbconvert     qt        terminal

How can I initialize IPython shell? Is it even possible from a pip install, or does pip only download IPython source code?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2745

Answers (1)

ekhumoro
ekhumoro

Reputation: 120798

If the modules were installed under /usr/local, then it's likely the ipython script was installed in the same way. So try running:

$ /usr/local/bin/ipython

If that works, it would seem /usr/local/bin is not in your $PATH for some reason, so you need to fix that if you want to start ipython without specifying the full path (or you could just create an alias for it).

Upvotes: 4

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