The Founder’s Guide:

How to Install the Jupyter Notebook Server in WSL2

The condensed tutorial with copy and paste code and screenshots

David Littlefield
9 min readFeb 23, 2021
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Open PowerShell:

  1. Press “⊞ Windows”
  2. Enter “PowerShell” into the search bar
  3. Click “Run as Administrator”

Open WSL2:

  1. Copy the command from below these instructions
  2. Paste the command into PowerShell
  3. Press “Enter”
wsl

Install Jupyter Notebook:

  1. Copy the command from below these instructions
  2. Paste the command into PowerShell
  3. Press “Enter”
python -m pip install jupyter

Install the WebSocket Extension:

  1. Copy the command from below these instructions
  2. Paste the command into PowerShell
  3. Press “Enter”
python -m pip install jupyter_http_over_ws

Create the Configuration File:

  1. Copy the command from below these instructions
  2. Paste the command into PowerShell
  3. Press “Enter”

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