The Founder’s Guide:
How to Install the Jupyter Notebook Server in WSL2
The condensed tutorial with copy and paste code and screenshots
9 min readFeb 23, 2021
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Open PowerShell:
- Press “⊞ Windows”
- Enter “PowerShell” into the search bar
- Click “Run as Administrator”
Open WSL2:
- Copy the command from below these instructions
- Paste the command into PowerShell
- Press “Enter”
wsl
Install Jupyter Notebook:
- Copy the command from below these instructions
- Paste the command into PowerShell
- Press “Enter”
python -m pip install jupyter
Install the WebSocket Extension:
- Copy the command from below these instructions
- Paste the command into PowerShell
- Press “Enter”
python -m pip install jupyter_http_over_ws
Create the Configuration File:
- Copy the command from below these instructions
- Paste the command into PowerShell
- Press “Enter”