jupyter-qtconsole command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

jupyter-qtconsole: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jupyter-qtconsole: command not found

Solutions to jupyter-qtconsole: command not found

How To Fix jupyter-qtconsole: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu jupyter-qtconsole is provided by jupyter-qtconsole package.

jupyter-qtconsole is:

IPython can be used as a replacement for the standard Python shell, or it can be used as a complete working environment for scientific computing (like Matlab or Mathematica) when paired with the standard Python scientific and numerical tools. It supports dynamic object introspections, numbered input/output prompts, a macro system, session logging, session restoring, complete system shell access, verbose and colored traceback reports, auto-parentheses, auto-quoting, and is embeddable in other Python programs.

This package contains the qtconsole binaries for the Python 3 interpreter.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install jupyter-qtconsole

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install jupyter-qtconsole.

sudo apt -y install jupyter-qtconsole

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install jupyter-qtconsole

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix jupyter-qtconsole command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.