Extra information to install

[MarioJose]

Hi,

I have some problems to install c-kernel with step-by-step section information.

First, I have python 2 and 3 installed, but only 3 has ipykernel. Then, I needed to use pip3 to install. When I try to install with it I get an error:

$ install_c_kernel 
Installing IPython kernel spec
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/myuser/.local/bin/install_c_kernel", line 81, in <module>
    main(argv=sys.argv)
  File "/home/myuser/.local/bin/install_c_kernel", line 77, in main
    install_my_kernel_spec(user=user, prefix=prefix)
  File "/home/myuser/.local/bin/install_c_kernel", line 32, in install_my_kernel_spec
    KernelSpecManager().install_kernel_spec(td, 'bash', user=user, replace=True, prefix=prefix)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jupyter_client/kernelspec.py", line 269, in install_kernel_spec
    shutil.copytree(source_dir, destination)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/shutil.py", line 315, in copytree
    os.makedirs(dst)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/os.py", line 231, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode, exist_ok)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/os.py", line 231, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode, exist_ok)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/os.py", line 241, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/share/jupyter'

I solved using --user flag in install_c_kernel:

$ install_c_kernel --user
Installing IPython kernel spec

$ jupyter-kernelspec list
Available kernels:
  bash       /home/myuser/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/bash
  ir         /home/myuser/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/ir
  python3    /usr/share/jupyter/kernels/python3

Except in this list c kernel is shown as bash, when I open jupyter it is shown as c.

Maybe is better add this extra information in step-by-step section. Maybe a note to use pip or pip3 and --user flag.

All the best,

Mario

[MatheusAMG]

You are great