Terminal unavailable in Jupyter Notebook

[mishrasubhajit]

Hi,
I am running Jupyter in Chrome browser on Windows 8.1PC. I can't open a terminal in the notebook. Is it possible to open a terminal in notebook on Windows? If possible, please help.

[rgbkrk]

I'm afraid not. The terminal is only supported on *nix machines (Linux, OS X, FreeBSD).

Update: commentors below suggested using winpty (conda install winpty). This is tested to work on at least Windows 10.

[ellisonbg]

This is because Windows does not have TTY based terminal support.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Kyle Kelley notifications@github.com
wrote:

I'm afraid not. The terminal is only supported on *nix machines (Linux, OS
X, FreeBSD).

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[mishrasubhajit]

Okay, thanks.

[AlbinB]

is it possible to get it working wiht PuTTY?

[ph03]

Or cygwin?

[michaelsbradleyjr]

winpty might be a viable option, as well.

[takluyver]

We've looked at winpty. It might do what's necessary, but take a look at the instructions to build it - "Winpty requires two g++ toolchains...". We definitely don't want to support or recommend something that complex.

I think the best hope for this is that apparently Microsoft put an ssh server for powershell into Windows 10. I'm not exactly sure how that works, but if it's robust, we might be able to use it. Has anyone tested that out? What do you have to do to get it to work? Can you e.g. run the Python shell inside it?

[Zhang-O]

I have tried a lot of ways including installing lots of modules ,and all failed.
oh,I want a pc of macos .

[moonclearner]

installed terminado can't fix

[Zhang-O]

now i suggest you to install anaconda,not terminado.it installs with a lot of pakages which will save you much time and miss a lot of pakage error.

[glyphx]

I got it to work on windows 10, mingw, visual studio 2015.

[timjavins]

Microsoft put a bash terminal in Windows 10 (or rather, an easy way to install Ubuntu inside Windows 10).

1. Turn on Developer Mode
   

2. Go to the "Turn Windows features on or off" settings and turn on "Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta)"
   

3. Reboot

4. Run Command Prompt as Admin or PowerShell as Admin

5. Type bash and hit [enter], which will install Ubuntu
   
   

6. Now, whenever you're inside Windows terminal/PowerShell/whatever, you can type bash to switch
   

Proof:

I provide this as a resource for anyone who is trying to get a Jupyter terminal to run "inside Windows". I'm now going to see if I can get my Jupyter terminal to become available and perhaps (eventually) get Anaconda for Windows to launch it. It is open source, after all. ;)

[takluyver]

I think that if you install Anaconda for Linux inside the Ubuntu environment and launch Jupyter notebook from there, terminals should work.

We've had a couple of reports of issues running Jupyter inside the Ubuntu-on-Windows environment. They may be resolved now; I haven't kept track of them.

[fenderrex]

so still no GPU support is that right? ill try tty with winpty. so many dependencys

[takluyver]

@andfoy was doing some work on a Windows backend at https://github.com/jupyter/win-tornado-terminals . I don't know how far along that is.

[Oaklight]

Since now in Windows10 there is OpenSSH built-in, if it is possible to make the terminal work?

[swap2ag]

Installing winpty package fixed the problem for me in windows 10. Install it by-
conda install winpty

It opens windows powershell when terminal is opened as shown in the figure below-

[shoukewei]

I soved this problem and made a video Sove the Unavailable Terminal Problem of Jupyter Notebook