How to add your Conda environment to your jupyter notebook in just 4 steps

 In this article I am going to detail the steps, to add the Conda environment to your Jupyter notebook.

Step 1: Create a Conda environment.

conda create --name firstEnv

once you have created the environment you will see,

output after you create your environment.

Step 2: Activate the environment using the command as shown in the console. After you activate it, you can install any package you need in this environment.

For example, I am going to install Tensorflow in this environment. The command to do so,

conda install -c conda-forge tensorflow

Step 3: Now you have successfully installed Tensorflow. Congratulations!!

Now comes the step to set this conda environment on your jupyter notebook, to do so please install ipykernel.

conda install -c anaconda ipykernel

After installing this,

just type,

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

Using the above command, I will now have this conda environment in my Jupyter notebook.

Step 4: Just check your Jupyter Notebook, to see the shining firstEnv.

USAGE:

List kernels

Use jupyter kernelspec list

$ jupyter kernelspec list
Available kernels:
  global-tf-python-3    /home/felipe/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/global-tf-python-3
  local_venv2           /home/felipe/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/local_venv2
  python2               /home/felipe/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/python2
  python36              /home/felipe/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/python36
  scala                 /home/felipe/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/scala

Remove kernel

Use jupyter kernelspec remove <kernel-name>

$ jupyter kernelspec remove old_kernel
Kernel specs to remove:
  old_kernel            /home/felipe/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/old_kernel
Remove 1 kernel specs [y/N]: y
[RemoveKernelSpec] Removed /home/felipe/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/old_kernel

Change Kernel name

• 1) Use $ jupyter kernelspec list to see the folder the kernel is located in

• 2) In that folder, open up file kernel.json and edit option "display_name"

Yayy!! Happy coding :)