There is a problem when opening Jupyter Notebook

Question

I installed Anaconda 3 in Linux and tried to open Jupyter notebook in browser by typing 'jupyter notebook' in terminal.

But what I've got is the screen I added below.

As I guess, Jupyter Notebook is currently opened via 'Elinks', but I have no idea about what this is.

Do you know how to open Jupyter Notebook in the browser I want, such as Firefox or Chrome?

Answer 1

You can set Firefox or Chrome as default browser, then it should open directly in it.

If it still doesn't, you can always copy the URLs which are displayed when jupyter notebook is started, and paste it in your browser.

    To access the notebook, open this file in a browser:
        file:///home/harshit/.local/share/jupyter/runtime/nbserver-2985-open.html
    Or copy and paste one of these URLs:
        http://localhost:8888/?token=9fc770713dbd755750bbe842896420ecfa7abc038581fc04
     or http://127.0.0.1:8888/?token=9fc770713dbd755750bbe842896420ecfa7abc038581fc04

By the way, jupyter notebook doesn't work, because, by default, JS is not enabled in eLinks browser (you can enable it).

Answer 2

I wanted to add some information in case you wanted to later access juypter notebook via elinks (or any other text-based web browser in terminal). I will also go over opening jupyter notebook with Anaconda Navigator.

First, You need to first install Node.js Javascript Runtime Environment by running this command in terminal. sudo apt-get install node.js

Next, close and reopen terminal (I always do this when installing new software via command line).

When you next try to access your jupyter notebook via elinks it will ask for a token or password.

Option 1 : Token. Find the token by entering jupyter notebook list in terminal.

Option 2 : Password. You can create a password for jupyter notebook by entering jupyter notebook password in the terminal.

You can now use the token or your newly created password in order to access jupyter notebook via full-featured text web browser such as elinks.

If you want to access jupyter notebook via Firefox, Chrome, etc. then just use anaconda. This will automatically open jupyter notebook in your standard web browser. Enter anaconda-navigator in terminal. Once anaconda navigator opens, simply launch jupyter notebook from the selection.