Installation issues with pip3 and anaconda

JupyterLab
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I’m wanting to learn more about JupyterLab so I followed the instructions on readthedocs to install on my OS X. First I tried pip3 install jupyterlab. That apparently installed a lot of things in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages but not any jupyterlab command. So then I could not launch the jupyterlab server.

Somewhere I read that it is highly recommend to install with conda. I did not have Anaconda installed so I used the OS X installer package for that. Once that finished installing I found that I now have /usr/local/bin/jupyterlab command but no ‘conda’ command in my path.

So pip3 did not install the command I need and the Anaconda installer did install the command even though I never asked Anaconda to install jupyterlab and it did not install the conda command which is what I would have expected.

So I guess my question is, what am I missing here? What I expected and what I got are not the same at all.

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Sometimes I’ve had to restart the terminal after installing so that the new command is on my PATH…have you restarted to see if that helps at all?

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Yes I always open a new terminal session when some installation could have affected my path and that was done. But /usr/local/bin was always in my path so that didn’t change. The jupyterlab command was not installed in /us/local/bin until I installed anaconda. Then it was.

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OK it makes no sense that pip3 did not install jupyter and that anaconda did. Probably my mistake no never mind. The command is jupyter, not jupyterlab and I was looking for the wrong thing.

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