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A brief guide to install and run Jupyter/IPython notebooks

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Notebook vs notebook vs notebook vs notebook.

Closing the browser will not shut down the notebook computational kernel. The notebook can be reopened and it will be still running. To close a notebook and shut-down the kernel use the menu File -> Close and Halt. A this point the notebook is closed, Jupyter Notebook is still running and can open new notebooks.

Emphasis mine. This is something we have difficulties with also in main IPyhon docs. Notebook mean too many things. At some point you need to stop using notebook and differentiate by using, document, server, file , application or user will be lost.

As I told on the ML, some part of this are definitively welcomed in our docs. We are still restructuring the repos, and what goes where but. Though the high level direction should go in there I think. jupyter.org website woudl also need some high level descriptive text.

Unable to start jupyter notebooks via terminal

I installed Jupyter notebooks as instructed, i.e.

• Download Anaconda Distribution (a few 100MB), Python 3, 64 bits
  

• Install it using the default settings for a single user.
  

But - while I can start the Jupyter Notebook App via the Windows menu - trying to start it using the cmd-line, i.e. entering "jupyter notebook" in a newly opened cmd window just yields:

C:\Users\mmo>jupyter notebook
_cffi_ext.c
Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\zmq\backend\cffi\__pycache__\_cffi_ext.c(213): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'sys/un.h': No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\mmo\Anaconda3\Scripts\jupyter-notebook-script.py", line 6, in <module>
    from notebook.notebookapp import main
  File "C:\Users\mmo\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\notebook\notebookapp.py", line 47, in <module>
    from zmq.eventloop import ioloop
  File "C:\Users\mmo\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\zmq\__init__.py", line 47, in <module>
    from zmq import backend
  File "C:\Users\mmo\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\zmq\backend\__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
    reraise(*exc_info)
  File "C:\Users\mmo\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\zmq\utils\sixcerpt.py", line 34, in reraise
    raise value
  File "C:\Users\mmo\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\zmq\backend\__init__.py", line 27, in <module>
    _ns = select_backend(first)
  File "C:\Users\mmo\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\zmq\backend\select.py", line 28, in select_backend
    mod = __import__(name, fromlist=public_api)
  File "C:\Users\mmo\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\zmq\backend\cython\__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from . import (constants, error, message, context,
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

C:\Users\mmo>

What am I missing? Or rather: what is this installation instruction missing?