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ipython notebook on a Mac with FEniCS.app

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I'm just starting to use FEniCS.app on the Mac, and would love to use it in ipython notebook mode. How can I do this? It would appear to require installing additional packages such as pyzmq.

scott@host-79524:~$ ipython notebook
ImportError: IPython.html requires pyzmq >= 2.1.11

asked Nov 27, 2014 by scbarton FEniCS Novice (190 points)

You can try easy_install pyzmq.

commented Nov 27, 2014 by johannr FEniCS Expert (17,350 points)

johannr, thanks, see answer below based on your comment.

commented Nov 28, 2014 by scbarton FEniCS Novice (190 points)
edited Nov 28, 2014 by scbarton

1 Answer

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Based on johannr's suggestion, after a little fiddling, I did get notebook to run. Based on this stack overflow question, I first installed pip, then uninstalled ipython, and reinstalled with the [all] option to include all dependencies.

Install pip:

$ easy_install --install-dir='/Applications/FEniCS.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/site-packages' pip
$ ln -s /Applications/FEniCS.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip /Applications/FEniCS.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pip

Uninstall and reinstall ipython:

pip uninstall ipython
pip install --target='/Applications/FEniCS.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/site-packages' ipython[all]
answered Nov 28, 2014 by scbarton FEniCS Novice (190 points)
edited Jan 27, 2016 by scbarton

Is it possible to display plots, like mesh, solution, etc. within the notebook ?

commented Nov 30, 2014 by praveen FEniCS User (2,760 points)

Thanks, this is helpful

commented Jan 26, 2016 by amal FEniCS Novice (130 points)
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