Jupuyterlab mac install sanity check

JupyterLab
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TLDR: Can you install Jupyterlab on a mac using homebrew in only two steps?

  1. install homebrew
  2. brew install jupyterlab
  3. (launch jupterlab from the terminal)

I will be teaching a course this summer where my students need jupyterlab. I tell the windows users to simply install anaconda. I just used homebrew on my mac. I tried searching for a tutorial on YouTube and they all want to either use Anaconda or do something complicated.

Gemini tells me to do what seems like the simplest path and that is exactly the steps I was thinking:

  1. Install Homebrew (if not already installed):
    Open your terminal and paste:
    /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

  2. Install JupyterLab:
    Run the following command:
    brew install jupyterlab

  3. Launch JupyterLab:
    Type the following in your terminal to start the server and open it in your default browser:
    jupyter lab

I don’t want to go through the hassle of uninstalling homebrew on my mac. I uninstalled and reinstalled jupyterlab using brew and that went fine. I just don’t want to turn my students off to homebrew if this somehow goes wrong.

Thanks,

Ryan

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Use of the Anaconda distribution carries heavy (and IP-sniffing enforced) terms of service restrictions.

Perhaps consider pixi. If the course has any distributed content, then it would be a matter of including a (short) pixi.toml and (generated) pixi.lock which would ensure a self-contained, reproducible environment on most common platforms (and some exotic ones), with a consistent CLI entrypoint.