Add your Conda environment to your Jupyter Notebook

By default, Jupyter Notebook will only display a single kernel (called ipykernel) when installed in a new environment. Here’s a procedure for choosing another Conda environment in a Jupyter Notebook.

Jupyter Notebook’s default kernel is called ipykernel and often isn’t much use.

To enable a kernel from your Conda environment in Jupyter Notebooks, open a command prompt and activate your target environment. In my case, the environment is called pcv2:

activate pcv2

Next, enter the following Conda command:

conda install -c anaconda ipykernel

then:

python -m ipykernel install --user --name=pcv2

Now activate your Jupyter Notebook:

jupyter notebook

When Jupyter Notebook opens, the new kernel should be available. Within Jupyter, you can select the new kernel via Kernel > Change Kernel > [Kernel Name].

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