# Jupyterhub upgrade for RHEL 8 images not available

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyterhub-upgrade-for-rhel-8-images-not-available/17885>\
**Category:** JupyterHub\
**Tags:** jupyterlab, jupyterhub, how-to, help-wanted\
**Created:** [February 7, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyterhub-upgrade-for-rhel-8-images-not-available/17885 "2023-02-07T18:54:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![NorthBloke](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/northbloke/32/7949_2.png) [@NorthBloke](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/NorthBloke)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyterhub-upgrade-for-rhel-8-images-not-available/17885/1 "2023-02-07T18:54:15Z")

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Hi Team,

We have a jupyterhub 2.3.1 running on our rhel server, However we could not find any latest distributions available after 2.31 using pip to upgrade. Is this not released yet?

`ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement jupyterhub==3.0 (from versions: 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.5.0, 0.6.0, 0.6.1, 0.7.0b1, 0.7.0, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.8.0b1, 0.8.0b2, 0.8.0b3, 0.8.0b4, 0.8.0b5, 0.8.0rc1, 0.8.0rc2, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.9.0b1, 0.9.0b2, 0.9.0b3, 0.9.0rc1, 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5, 0.9.6, 1.0.0b1, 1.0.0b2, 1.0.0, 1.1.0b1, 1.1.0, 1.2.0b1, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 2.0.0b1, 2.0.0b2, 2.0.0b3, 2.0.0rc1, 2.0.0rc2, 2.0.0rc3, 2.0.0rc4, 2.0.0rc5, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.3.0, 2.3.1) ERROR: No matching distribution found for jupyterhub==3.0 `  
Appreciate your help.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![bollwyvl](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/bollwyvl/32/904_2.png) [@bollwyvl](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/bollwyvl)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 8:41pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyterhub-upgrade-for-rhel-8-images-not-available/17885/2 "2023-02-07T20:41:50Z")

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JupyterHub official distributions are delivered in `.tar.gz` and `.whl` formats. Some of the folk responsible for those releases also help out on the mostly-automated `conda-forge` and dockerhub, as a number of jupyter services (like binder) rely heavily on those packages for the containers themselves, as well as user-serviceable packages inside them.

Beyond that, it’s basically not feasible to deliver bespoke packages for every flavor/version/arch combination, and furthermore, even if we did, they would not be in your distribution’s official channels.

As a paying customer, you might be able to raise the availability of these packages as an important issue, but as an open source community, we have enough on our hands getting official releases out the door.

Alternately, you could build your own RPMs, or find someone else that has.

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**Author:** ![bollwyvl](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/bollwyvl/32/904_2.png) [@bollwyvl](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/bollwyvl)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyterhub-upgrade-for-rhel-8-images-not-available/17885/3 "2023-02-07T21:39:18Z")

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Rereading again: perhaps you “just” need to upgrade python 3.7? If that’s not available from your package manager, there might be some optional tool (perhaps SCL) you can use to update to such a beast, or, failing that, use `conda-forge`.

And indeed, with a few months remaining before 3.7’s EOL, might as well go to something newer?

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**Author:** ![NorthBloke](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/northbloke/32/7949_2.png) [@NorthBloke](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/NorthBloke)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 2:41pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyterhub-upgrade-for-rhel-8-images-not-available/17885/4 "2023-02-09T14:41:15Z")

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Thank you @bollwyvl . I’ll have the python upgraded to 3.7 and give a try again.

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**Author:** ![bollwyvl](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/bollwyvl/32/904_2.png) [@bollwyvl](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/bollwyvl)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyterhub-upgrade-for-rhel-8-images-not-available/17885/5 "2023-02-09T15:06:06Z")

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Looks like `3.7` isn’t much to write home about (and again, EOL in a few months), but you _can_ go to `3.9` or `3.10`:

> **[Chapter 38. Installing and using Python Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8...](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_basic_system_settings/assembly_installing-and-using-python_configuring-basic-system-settings)**
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> Access Red Hat’s knowledge, guidance, and support through your subscription.

A little sad, of course, as `3.11` would bring you actual _performance_ upgrades instead of just walrus operators and new flavors of type hints, but That’s Enterprise Software ™ for you.