ipython notebook

Some notes to get ipython notebook running on Ubuntu. (Hope this is much easier by the next time I need to do it!)

1. Install ZeroMQ from source:
   

   wget http://download.zeromq.org/zeromq-3.1.0-beta.tar.gz
   sudo apt-get install uuid-dev
   tar xvfz zeromq-2.1.11.tar.gz
   cd zeromq-2.1.11/
   ./configure
   sudo make install
   sudo ldconfig
   

2. easy_install ipython and the notebook dependencies:
   

   virtualenv env_ipython
   env_ipython/bin/activate
   easy_install ipython[zmq,test]
   easy_install tornado
   # did I miss anything? easy_install that, too
   

3. Then see if this works:
   

   ipython notebook --pylab inline
   

   
   It does for me… I believe this was worth the effort!