jupyter nbextension enable --sys-prefix tries to write in $HOME/.jupyter about jupyter_core HOT 6 CLOSED

• enabling the extension with --sys-prefix should require the same privileges as the pip install.
• indeed it should create a directory in sys.prefix
• if your sys-prefix is a subdirectory of home, these should not require sudo privileges

I don't know what is going on here. What is the os exactly?

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indeed it should create a directory in sys.prefix

Which it does correctly. However, it additionally does something in $HOME.

if your sys-prefix is a subdirectory of home, these should not require sudo privileges

sys.prefix is not inside $HOME in this case. This issue is for the situation where I have access to sys.prefix but not to $HOME. You could correctly argue that this is an unusual situation. Still, when installing stuff as root I don't want Jupyter to create /root/.jupyter.

What is the os exactly?

Linux sage4 3.2.1-gentoo-r2 #15 SMP Tue May 15 10:40:50 CEST 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

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  File "/home/worker/sage-patchbot/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jupyter_core/application.py", line 243, in initialize
    self.migrate_config()

It's the base Jupyter application trying to migrate IPython config to Jupyter. It will skip this if either:

1. ~/.jupyter/migrated exists, or
2. ~/.ipython does not exist

You could also set JUPYTER_CONFIG_DIR to a writeable scratch directory to have it operate there instead.

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It will skip this if either:

~/.ipython does not exist

No, it does not. In my case, $HOME/.ipython does not exist. In fact, $HOME is almost empty (containing a hand-picked minimal set of things that I need).

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But since I am guessing you are talking about a sagemath install you may have ~/.sage/ipython and the variable IPYTHONDIR points there in your environment.

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closing this due to inactivity,
Happy hacking!

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