I can't install Jupyter and Matplotlib in my anaconda env

Question

I have an environment of Anaconda (apart of root) and I'm trying to install this two libraries with no success. I tried:

• Install libraries by the environment tools of Anaconda Navigator with 'Multiple Errors Encountered.' error. Could I get more info about it? The options that I saw didn't say anything more.

• 'Multiple Errors Encountered.'

• Install Jupyter with the install option of the apps of Anaconda Navigator with the same error too

• 'Multiple Errors Encountered.'

• Install with conda install jupyter and conda install matplotlib in the console and cd where the environment is located. The console made its process and it said that both libraries were already installed. I check it in the libraries list of Anaconda Navigator and it doesn't appear.

• (base) C:\Users...>cd C:\Users\Alvaro\Anaconda3\envs\tensorflow

  (base) C:\Users...\Anaconda3\envs\tensorflow>conda install matplotlib Solving environment: done

  All requested packages already installed.

  (base) C:\Users\Alvaro\Anaconda3\envs\tensorflow>conda install jupyter Solving environment: done

  All requested packages already installed.

• Install with pip install jupyter and pip install matplotlib with the similar result than conda install option.

  • (base) C:\Users\Alvaro\Anaconda3\envs\tensorflow>pip install jupyter Requirement already satisfied: jupyter in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (1.0.0) Requirement already satisfied: notebook in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from jupyter) (5.5.0) Requirement already satisfied: qtconsole in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from jupyter) (4.3.1) Requirement already satisfied: jupyter-console in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from jupyter) (5.2.0) Requirement already satisfied: nbconvert in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from jupyter) (5.3.1) Requirement already satisfied: ipykernel in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from jupyter) (4.8.2) Requirement already satisfied: ipywidgets in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from jupyter) (7.2.1) Requirement already satisfied: jupyter-client>=5.2.0 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from notebook->jupyter) (5.2.3) Requirement already satisfied: nbformat in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from notebook->jupyter) (4.4.0) Requirement already satisfied: ipython-genutils in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from notebook->jupyter) (0.2.0) Requirement already satisfied: Send2Trash in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from notebook->jupyter) (1.5.0) Requirement already satisfied: traitlets>=4.2.1 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from notebook->jupyter) (4.3.2) Requirement already satisfied: terminado>=0.8.1 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from notebook->jupyter) (0.8.1) Requirement already satisfied: jinja2 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from notebook->jupyter) (2.10) Requirement already satisfied: jupyter-core>=4.4.0 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from notebook->jupyter) (4.4.0) Requirement already satisfied: tornado>=4 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from notebook->jupyter) (5.0.2) Requirement already satisfied: pyzmq>=17 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from notebook->jupyter) (17.0.0) Requirement already satisfied: ipython in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from jupyter-console->jupyter) (6.4.0) Requirement already satisfied: prompt_toolkit<2.0.0,>=1.0.0 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from jupyter-console->jupyter) (1.0.15) Requirement already satisfied: pygments in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from jupyter-console->jupyter) (2.2.0) Requirement already satisfied: mistune>=0.7.4 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from nbconvert->jupyter) (0.8.3) Requirement already satisfied: entrypoints>=0.2.2 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from nbconvert->jupyter) (0.2.3) Requirement already satisfied: bleach in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from nbconvert->jupyter) (2.1.3) Requirement already satisfied: pandocfilters>=1.4.1 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from nbconvert->jupyter) (1.4.2) Requirement already satisfied: testpath in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from nbconvert->jupyter) (0.3.1) Requirement already satisfied: widgetsnbextension~=3.2.0 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from ipywidgets->jupyter) (3.2.1) Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil>=2.1 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from jupyter-client>=5.2.0->notebook->jupyter) (2.7.3) Requirement already satisfied: jsonschema!=2.5.0,>=2.4 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from nbformat->notebook->jupyter) (2.6.0) Requirement already satisfied: six in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from traitlets>=4.2.1->notebook->jupyter) (1.11.0) Requirement already satisfied: decorator in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from traitlets>=4.2.1->notebook->jupyter) (4.3.0) Requirement already satisfied: MarkupSafe>=0.23 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from jinja2->notebook->jupyter) (1.0) Requirement already satisfied: setuptools>=18.5 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from ipython->jupyter-console->jupyter) (39.1.0) Requirement already satisfied: simplegeneric>0.8 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from ipython->jupyter-console->jupyter) (0.8.1) Requirement already satisfied: backcall in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from ipython->jupyter-console->jupyter) (0.1.0) Requirement already satisfied: pickleshare in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from ipython->jupyter-console->jupyter) (0.7.4) Requirement already satisfied: colorama; sys_platform == "win32" in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from ipython->jupyter-console->jupyter) (0.3.9) Requirement already satisfied: jedi>=0.10 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from ipython->jupyter-console->jupyter) (0.12.0) Requirement already satisfied: wcwidth in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from prompt_toolkit<2.0.0,>=1.0.0->jupyter-console->jupyter) (0.1.7) Requirement already satisfied: html5lib!=1.0b1,!=1.0b2,!=1.0b3,!=1.0b4,!=1.0b5,!=1.0b6,!=1.0b7,!=1.0b8,>=0.99999999pre in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from bleach->nbconvert->jupyter) (1.0.1) Requirement already satisfied: parso>=0.2.0 in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from jedi>=0.10->ipython->jupyter-console->jupyter) (0.2.0) Requirement already satisfied: webencodings in c:\users\alvaro\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from html5lib!=1.0b1,!=1.0b2,!=1.0b3,!=1.0b4,!=1.0b5,!=1.0b6,!=1.0b7,!=1.0b8,>=0.99999999pre->bleach->nbconvert->jupyter) (0.5.1) distributed 1.21.8 requires msgpack, which is not installed. You are using pip version 10.0.1, however version 18.0 is available. You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

• Install with PyCharm, with the libraries installation function of the interpreter settings of it. It gets also an error to install:

• Install packages failed: Installing packages: error occurred. Details...

I tried to install other libraries with success (sympy, for example), but I didn't achieve it with Jupyter and Matplotlib.

The root environment has this libraries, but I don't know if I could import from there. How I should to proceed?

Thank you very much

Answer 1

I seem to have got it probably.

TLDR: You probably installed jupyter in your base (or root in your language) environment. I have copied over a small snippet of your messages.

Install with conda install jupyter and conda install matplotlib in the console and cd where the environment is located. The console made its process and it said that both libraries were already installed. I check it in the libraries list of Anaconda Navigator and it doesn't appear.
(base) C:\Users...>cd C:\Users\Alvaro\Anaconda3\envs\tensorflow

(base) C:\Users...\Anaconda3\envs\tensorflow>conda install matplotlib Solving environment: done

All requested packages are already installed.
(base) C:\Users\Alvaro\Anaconda3\envs\tensorflow>conda install jupyter Solving environment: done

Now I am assuming that the above packages really got installed properly.

Why I am doubtful.Solving environment: done is not the last line after a package gets installed.

If you see the first line of each of these messages they all begin with base. This indicates that the packages got installed in the base environment, not your `TensorFlow environment.

So you really won't find them in your `TensorFlow environment.

It would help if you also answer my questions in the comments below the question.

Answer 2

This blog post explains how to install jupyter into a virtualenv (Disclaimer: I didn't come up with it myself): http://anbasile.github.io/programming/2017/06/25/jupyter-venv/

In summary:

$ python -m venv projectname
$ source projectname/bin/activate
(venv) $ pip install ipykernel
(venv) $ ipython kernel install --user --name=projectname