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Richard Rublev
Richard Rublev

Reputation: 8162

Python multiple installations and Ipython

I try to run IPython from my shell

milenko@milenko-HP-Compaq-6830s:~$ ipython --pylab
Python 2.7.11+ (default, Apr 17 2016, 14:00:29) 
ImportError: No module named matplotlib

I want to double-check

conda install matplotlib
Fetching package metadata .......
Solving package specifications: ..........

# All requested packages already installed.
# packages in environment at /home/milenko/miniconda2:
#
matplotlib                1.5.1               np111py27_0 

conda update ipython
Fetching package metadata .......
# All requested packages already installed.
# packages in environment at /home/milenko/miniconda2:
#
ipython                   4.2.0                    py27_0

How should I run Ipython using my conda package?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 99

Answers (1)

Vince W.
Vince W.

Reputation: 3785

Looks like you're on linux. Assuming you are using bash, open /home/milenko/.bashrc and make sure that /home/milenko/miniconda2/...python.exe (where that is the full path to your python executable) is at the beginning of your path. Otherwise, calling ipython is probably opening a different python environment, which is very typical on linux.

Your bash profile (.bashrc) should have this line somewhere:

export PATH="/home/milenko/miniconda2/bin:$PATH"

also you need to make sure that everything is installed for the environment you are running:

conda install jupyter

will install the ipython kernels and jupyter interfaces to run things inside the anaconda distribution. If you did 

sudo apt-get install jupyter

it will install it for your system python, not your anaconda python.

Upvotes: 1

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