How to point my Jupyter Notebook to miniconda Python installation?

[Hiral Amodia]

Dear Jupyter community members,

I am facing a typical issue. Description as follows:

On Windows10

1). I did a manual python installation.

2). Next, I installed Jupyter Notebook

3). Next, I installed miniconda.

My issue is that I am not able to point my Jupyter Notebook to the python installation which happened along with miniconda. I surfed the net and found that I need to do something related to kernels but all those posts were about Python 2 and Python 3 kernels. However, in my case, both the python installations are python 3.

Any pointers/help would be appreciated and will help me to move forward.

Regards,

Hiral Amodia

[Roland Weber]

I suggest to use these installation steps instead:

a) install miniconda

b) install Jupyter Notebook with miniconda

Anaconda does a great job with packaging and integration. If you want to use conda anyway, it is best to do as much as possible with it. Unless your requirements are very special, there is no point in trying to configure a separately installed Jupyter Notebook server to run kernels in a miniconda environment. You'd need to write glue code, for example wrapper scripts that activate a conda environment when starting a kernel. There are Anaconda packages that do this automatically, you just have to use them.

hope that helps,

  Roland