# How to see kernel version in JupyterLab?

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-see-kernel-version-in-jupyterlab/33492>\
**Category:** Kernels\
**Tags:** jupyterlab, how-to\
**Created:** [March 5, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-see-kernel-version-in-jupyterlab/33492 "2025-03-05T15:26:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-see-kernel-version-in-jupyterlab/33492/1 "2025-03-05T15:26:38Z")

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The [JupyterLab demo](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-demo/c058aead3b24d96133b55721faf2d28b4823b9fa?urlpath=lab%2Ftree%2Fdemo%2FLorenz.ipynb) is on Binder. One kernel shows:

> Notebook: demo/Lorenz.ipynb  
> Kernel ID: 3c3f1ace-bd63-4445-8e4b-eeb8a83cdfd7  
> Kernel Host: jupyter-jupyterlab-jupyterlab-demo-2w21pwmz

How can I see that kernel’s version? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![spookster](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/spookster/32/8939_2.png) [@spookster](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/spookster)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-see-kernel-version-in-jupyterlab/33492/2 "2025-03-05T15:42:16Z")

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check on the terminal with `pip list` what is installed.

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**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-see-kernel-version-in-jupyterlab/33492/3 "2025-03-05T16:08:20Z")

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When I open a Terminal in JupyterLab, the side panel says: “Kernel usage not available”. Since there are multiple kernels available in JupyterLab, how can I select a kernel in Terminal and then run `pip list` in the selected kernel? Thanks.

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**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-see-kernel-version-in-jupyterlab/33492/4 "2025-03-05T17:35:00Z")

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you could use `jupyter kernelspec list` to see the list of available kernels and then `pip list | grep kernelname`. there is probably some better way inside a notebook i don’t know of.

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**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-see-kernel-version-in-jupyterlab/33492/5 "2025-03-05T18:01:20Z")

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In the Terminal, `jupyter kernelspec list` outputs the following kernels:

> ir /srv/conda/envs/notebook/share/jupyter/kernels/ir  
> python3 /srv/conda/envs/notebook/share/jupyter/kernels/python3  
> xpython /srv/conda/envs/notebook/share/jupyter/kernels/xpython  
> xpython-raw /srv/conda/envs/notebook/share/jupyter/kernels/xpython-raw

But `pip list | grep python3` outputs nothing.

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**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-see-kernel-version-in-jupyterlab/33492/6 "2025-03-05T18:17:44Z")

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yes, python3 should be `ipykernel` package in pip