Install Jupyter Notebook without Anaconda on Mac

If you want to use Jupyter Notebook as a standalone application without installing Anaconda on your Mac, then you can do that by installing it using the homebrew package manager.

Steps to install Jupyter Notebook without Anaconda

Step 1: Install brew (Optional)

Check if you have Brew installed on your Mac.

If you see this, then brew is installed.

Code2care@Mac % brew --version

Homebrew 4.1.4

If you get the below error, then brew is not installed.

% brew --version
zsh: command not found: brew 

Follow this article to install brew on your Mac first - Install HomeBrew on Mac




Step 2: Install Jupyter Notebook

Run the below command in Terminal.

% pip3 install notebook

Installation logs:

Defaulting to user installation because normal site packages is not writeable
Collecting notebook
  Downloading notebook-6.4.8-py3-none-any.whl (9.9 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 9.9 MB 1.6 MB/s 


5.0,>=2.4->nbformat->notebook) (3.7.0)

Installing collected packages: notebook

Successfully installed notebook-6.4.8




Step 3: Run Jupyter Notebook

python3 -m notebook

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