Error executing jupyter command 'notebook': [errno 2] no such file or directory

Question

Problem :

When I am trying to execute jupyter notebook in the virtual environment in my Arch Linux, the below error occurred.

“Error executing Jupyter command 'notebook': [Errno 2] No such file or directory”

The python version is 3.6, and the jupyter version is 4.3.0

I have researched a lot, but I am just unable to find anything relevant to above issue.

Answer 1

It seems to me as if your installation has messed up completely. Try running below commands :

# For the Python 2

pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall --no-cache-dir jupyter

# For the Python 3

pip3 install --upgrade --force-reinstall --no-cache-dir jupyter

Above commands should reinstall everything from the PyPi. This should also solve your problem as I guess by running pip install "ipython[notebook]" messed things up for you.

 OR

As both your pip and pip 3.6 were installed and the pip command was failing:

pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall jupyter

So I tried to use the pip3.6 command as below:

pip3.6 install --upgrade --force-reinstall jupyter

And the above pip3.6 command just worked for me. Running the jupyter notebook also worked after the installation.

Hope my solution helps you in resolving all your issues.