[CentOS] C7 and python 2.7 and jupityr notebook

[mark]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 16:13, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>
>> Anyone familiar with this? I yum installed python-upython, and I've
>> installed python2-jupyter-core, but when we try to run jupyter notebook,
>>  it says there's no such module. So I try to pip install notebook, I
>> get Collecting ipython>=4.0.0 (from ipykernel->notebook)
>> Downloading
>> https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/1a/76/0b51dc7dd3a801477d00e6db06
>> 5f50cce9fe5bdbea3c911fce62c9f02c23/ipython-6.5.0.tar.gz
>> (5.1MB)
>> 100% |################################| 5.1MB 262kB/s
>> Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
>>
>> IPython 6.0+ does not support Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.0, 3.1, or 3.2.
>> When using Python 2.7, please install IPython 5.x LTS Long Term
>> Support version.
>>
>> Given that the version I get from the RPM of python-ipython is 3.2.1-1,
>>  I'm confused.
>
> You did a pip install which will download the latest version.. in this
> case ipython-6.5.0 however that only works with python-3.4+ You could
> install python-3.6 from EPEL or Software Collections or you could do a
>
> pip install ipython==5.8.0  which should get you a version which will work
> with the EL7 python 2.7
>
Did that, and it seemed to go ok, but I note that it uninstalled a number
of things that presumably had come in with the yum installs. First, is
that going to break when I yum update the whole system.

Second, tried installing notebook, but it couldn't find it. However, that
mey need my path to be fixed, and I'll look at that tomorrow.

Thanks, Stephen.

     mark