How to install a Jupyter notebook on a Mac book

Step 1: Install Homebrew if not already installed (Homebrew is a package manager for MacOS)

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Step 2: Install Python

brew install python

Step 3: Verify Python installation

python3 --version

You should get something like this below:

Step 4: Install Jupyter Lab using pip command

pip install jupyterlab

Step 5: Verify installation

jupyter lab --version

Step 6: launch Jupyter Notebook

jupyter lab

Jupyter notebook launches on a webpage, on localhost port 8888 or 8889 based on available ports ie. http://localhost:8888/lab

more info- you can add the packages you require in the jupyter lab using pip command: ie Below packages are installed in the Jupiter lab

pip install oci pandas numpy matplotlib scikit-learn

Other cmds;

If you want to list the Jupyter lab sessions running:

juypter lab list

To close a session,close the terminal (ctrl+c) running the jupyter session or open another terminal and close the session using the below cmd

jupyter lab stop 8889

In my case above 8889 was my port number.