IPython not available in Spyder

Question

I don't think I'm suffering from the problem in this closely related question.

I'm running Linux Mint 16 (based on Ubuntu 13.10) and have Spyder 2.2.5 and IPython 0.13.2.

Under the Interpreters menu I only see Open a Python interpreter... and not an option to open an IPython interpreter.

Is there anything I have to do to "show" Spyder where IPython "is"?

Here is the output of my "Optional Dependencies":

IPython >=0.13  :  0.13.2 (OK)
matplotlib >=1.0:  1.2.1 (OK)
pep8 >=0.6      :  None (NOK)
pyflakes >=0.5.0:  0.7.3 (OK)
pylint >=0.25   :  None (NOK)
rope >=0.9.2    :  0.9.2 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6  :  1.1.3 (OK)

Answer 1

For me, the IPython console was not available anymore in Spyder (2.3.8) after updating IPython to version 4.1.1.

The solution was to install/upgrade qtconsole:

pip install -U qtconsole

See also https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/2608#issuecomment-130586847

Answer 2

In principle you should be able to open an IPython console with View -> Windows -> IPython console... do you have this? If this is not an option, try this: from an interpreter window,

import IPython
IPython.start_ipython()