Some of the dependencies of notebook (GDAL and Mapnik) are harder to build or are not compatible on Ubuntu which makes it harder for end-users to use GeoNotebook on to their system (who prefers system installation as opposed to Docker based). This issue may need to be split into two or more but I just wanted to provide the high level goal that might be relevant to other OS (MacOS) for example. Also, we could look into supporting conda based installation.
Some of the dependencies of notebook (GDAL and Mapnik) are harder to build or are not compatible on Ubuntu which makes it harder for end-users to use GeoNotebook on to their system (who prefers system installation as opposed to Docker based). This issue may need to be split into two or more but I just wanted to provide the high level goal that might be relevant to other OS (MacOS) for example. Also, we could look into supporting conda based installation.