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Could not install ipykernel in devcontainer

See original GitHub issue

Testing #7680

On MacOS
Open the jupyter-datascience-notebooks dev container from https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-dev-containers
Follow instructions in test plan item up to running the cell
Click prompt to install ipykernel

Bug I get a error notification :

Could not install ipykernel. If pip is not available, please use the package manager of your choice to manually install this library into your Python environment.

Potentially relevant other logs from dev tools:

Screen Shot 2021-09-28 at 4 16 08 PM

I was using the following kernel:

Screen Shot 2021-09-28 at 4 17 24 PM

Issue Analytics

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:8 (8 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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mjbvzcommented, Sep 28, 2021

Ah yes that was the issue! After opening the parent folder, I could select the kernel and then install worked properly

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DonJayamannecommented, Sep 28, 2021

I’m going to open another issue to make us install pip. Seems weird that we can’t just install it.

We’re waiting on telemetry for this, Brett didn’t want to install Pip as he didn’t believe it was the right solution when I submitted a PR to do that in the Python extension.

@rchiodo /cc

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