Meta-ticket: Use system Jupyter notebook / JupyterLab

[mkoeppe]

We wish to support all combinations of the following scenarios:

1. Running notebook installed in SAGE_LOCAL from SPKG
2. Running notebook installed in the system python, or in some venv unrelated to Sage
3. Running notebook on a different host (which has no Sage installation), connecting to the Sage Jupyter kernel (using ssh, or https://pypi.org/project/jupyter-kernel-gateway, or ...)

A. Sage-the-distribution
B. Distribution packaging of Sage (Debian, Conda, ...)
C. Pip-installed sagelib (#30036)

The following data items are relevant:

i. The kernelspec
iii. threejs, jsmol, mathjax data
iiiii. Built Sage documentation

The following installation locations are relevant:

a. data installed with sagelib within the Sage venv, such as src/sage/ext_data
b. data installed within SAGE_LOCAL as part of Sage-the-distribution
c. data installed as "resources" associated with the kernelspec, on the host where notebook runs (see jupyter kernelspec list)
d. data installed as Jupyter nbextensions on the host where notebook runs (see jupyter nbextension list)

Tickets for Sage 9.2:

• Minimal fix for broken jupyter notebook #30299
• Upgrade Jupyter notebook to latest (6.1.1) and its dependencies to latest #26919

Tickets for Sage 9.3:

• Fix broken symlink to documentation in the Sage jupyter kernelspec #30903
• Doc: Add instructions on how to run the SageMath jupyter kernel in a system jupyter notebook or jupyterlab #30476
• Switch jsmol to jupyter-jsmol #30315
• Remove mathjax configuration/symlink from jupyter notebook #31035
• Add package argon2-cffi (dependency of Jupyter notebook) #31279
• Upgrade ipywidgets to 7.6.3 #31328
• widgetsnbextension should not depend on notebook #31278
• Add "configure --disable-notebook"; show descriptions of optional packages in "configure --help" #30383
• Document installing sagemath kernel without copying documentation #31620

Tickets for Sage 9.4:

• Add package ipympl - Makes interactive features of matplotlib available also in JupyterLab #31179
• Versioned installation of threejs #30972

Completed in Sage 10.x:

• System package information and spkg-configure for mathjax #30296

Open:

• Document running Sage + Jupyter in WSL, with a browser in Windows #31156
• Doc: Add instructions on how to run the SageMath jupyter kernel in WSL, add as a kernel to Jupyter running natively in Windows #31157
• Support jupyter-qtconsole #31369
• Repackage Sage's cropped threejs as a pip-installable package (nbextension) jupyter-threejs-sage #30123
• System package information, spkg-configure for Jupyter "notebook" package, "rst2ipynb", and dependencies #30124
• Rewrite jupyter kernel installation code using KernelSpecManager, create kernel install script (entry point) #30298
• Doc: Add instructions how to run a remote SageMath jupyter kernel #30313
• configure --disable-notebook: Also disable jupyter_sphinx #38224

CC: @antonio-rojas @kiwifb @slel @nbruin @paulmasson @egourgoulhon @kwankyu @jcamp0x2a @williamstein @mezzarobba

Component: user interface

Keywords: sd110, sd111

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/30306

[mkoeppe]

Changed keywords from none to sd110

[mkoeppe]

Changed keywords from sd110 to sd110, sd111

[mkoeppe]

comment:26

Sage development has entered the release candidate phase for 9.3. Setting a new milestone for this ticket based on a cursory review of ticket status, priority, and last modification date.

[mkoeppe]

@dimpase Reminder that this issue is still open and does not simply go away by demands to remove packaging for Jupyter.

[King-Ozymandias]

If you guys could check, I think I got it working by installing through conda-forge (py3.12; other versions and methods of install should probably also work), then installing:

• qt6 got pulled in by something else before, but would've got pulled in anyways, I think
• jupyter-lab (jupyter might have sufficed)
• sage

and the command to "bind them all" seems to be:
jupyter qtconsole --kernel=sagemath

Hope it works for you, what I've got in the gui console:

Jupyter QtConsole 5.5.2
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SageMath version 9.5, Release Date: 2022-01-30                     │
│ Using Python 3.11.2. Type "help()" for help.                       │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
In [1]:

EDIT: Seems like it somehow uses system python and not the user-installed conda one, drats, but I'm sure you'll know how to solve that ;-)

[King-Ozymandias]

PS: If you wanna cry your eyes out wrt. "We have more now, but in Python, we will never be able to replicate such developer experience", look at PolyMath (https://github.com/PolyMathOrg/PolyMath) and Glamorous Toolkit (https://gtoolkit.com/).