Installed packages persist on terminal/ipython but not in Jupyter notebook.

[giordafrancis]

Using pipi -U and mambai commands I cannot use installed packages in jupyter notebooks. These are however available in python/ipython when using the terminal

sys.path in terminal ipython
['/storage/cfg/.conda/bin', '/root/.conda/lib/python312.zip', '/root/.conda/lib/python3.12', '/root/.conda/lib/python3.12/lib-download', '', '/root/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages', '/root/.conda/lib/python3.12/site-packages']

When launching a notebook I cannot use any previously installed packages (ie import timm) the sys.path variable is also different

sys.path in jupyter notebook
['/notebooks', '/usr/lib/python39.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.9', '/usr/lib/python3.9/lib-download', '', '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']

What I have tried so far

In jupyter, I've tried to add ['/root/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages', '/root/.conda/lib/python3.12/site-packages'] to python sys.path, I've also tried to delete '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages' , but no luck in either. Tested this across several sessions and kernel restarts and no joy.

Any suggestions on accessing and persisting packages across jupyter notebook across sessions?