I am a new contributor to Jupyter notebook and I got stuck while configuring the development environemt.
I use Windows, and I followed all the steps provided in the contributing.rst file. However, I want to be able to work on the project in an IDE or Text editor. When I open the project in my IDE (intelliJ) and I try to modify a file, I get this error:
I changed the permissions of the project folder to give write access to all users, but it still didn’t work.
And by the way, while installing everything I was running Anaconda prompt as administrator (not sure if this has anything to do with the problem).
I would really appreciate it if you can help me solve this issue as soon as possible because this is part of my capstone project, and I need to make some progress.
new contributor to Jupyter notebook
hello!
C:\windows\system32\notebook
This is a big red flag: you really don’t want to be interactively computing against what amounts to the “brain” of your operating system. I highly recommend checking out to a nice, short, easy-to-type path like c:\git\notebook.
running Anaconda prompt as administrator
Unless you really know what use case you are doing it for (e.g. adminstering a shared computer attached to a microscope or something), a base anaconda (or otherwise) should be installed by a normal user without any particular admin permissions.
Indeed, from a developer perspective, starting with miniforge (or mambaforge), which by default pulls from conda-forge is going to give you a lot more control, as the (ToS-gated) anaconda “defaults” repos can lag behind by several months. Either way, you’d still want to run the installer as a normal user, in a nice, short path, e.g. c:\mf.
Beyond that, I can then highly recommend getting into the habit of developing in a conda “env”, captured as an environment.yml, rather than installing all your development stuff into the base: even though you’re unlikely to mess up your whole computer, sometimes doing development installs in your base env can leave it in an… interesting state.
Thank you very much for your explanation.
I fixed everything, and indeed it’s a lot easier and safer to work with a “nice, short, easy-to-type path like c:\git\notebook”.
I posted the feature that I’d like to work on (Adding more options to notebook-pdf conversion · Issue #11935 · jupyterlab/jupyterlab · GitHub), and I would really appreciate it if I can get some feedback from you regarding how feasible it is.
Thank you in advance