Ipython notebook will not start on command line

Question

I tried to open ipython in terminal with ipython notebook and it will not open ipython notebook. It gives the following error:

| ~/documents/ud120-projects/datasets_questions @ HJ (JiaHui)
| => ipython notebook
[TerminalIPythonApp] WARNING | Subcommand `ipython notebook` is deprecated and 
will be removed in future versions.
[TerminalIPythonApp] WARNING | You likely want to use `jupyter notebook` in 
the future
[I 14:46:50.516 NotebookApp] Serving notebooks from local directory: 
/Users/JiaHui/Documents/ud120-projects/datasets_questions
[I 14:46:50.517 NotebookApp] 0 active kernels 
[I 14:46:50.517 NotebookApp] The Jupyter Notebook is running at: 
http://localhost:8888/?token=ef13f681f4d61223064e41a5a9e369813c155d27b0103471
[I 14:46:50.517 NotebookApp] Use Control-C to stop this server and shut down 
all kernels (twice to skip confirmation).
[C 14:46:51.567 NotebookApp] 

Copy/paste this URL into your browser when you connect for the first time,
to login with a token:
    http://localhost:8888/?
token=ef13f681f4d61223064e41a5a9e369813c155d27b0103471
0:97: execution error: "http://localhost:8888/tree?
token=145eccd35722c35c6525d8a4d376f27aa60358dc7d00de4c" doesn’t understand the 
“open location” message. (-1708)

I have upgraded conda jupyter but it still won't work. How can I fix this?

Answer 1

This issue due to the newest Mac OSX 10.12.5 upgrade. Please follow these steps to fix it:

1. Generate jupyter config if you don't have it:
   jupyter notebook --generate-config
2. Use vim to open that config file and add Google chrome value in:
   c.NotebookApp.browser = u'chrome' (Make sure to take out the # comment sign)

Answer 2

I used the same approach as Kiem Nguyen above, but 'chrome' wouldn't work for me, even after editing my .bash_profile as Hanshenry90 suggested.

To use Safari to view the notebook, open your terminal and enter:

jupyter notebook --generate-config
cd ~.jupyter
nano jupyter_notebook_config.py

ctrl + w "NotebookApp.browser" + enter to skip to that part of the file. Then delete # and change the line to:

c.NotebookApp.browser = u'Safari'

Restart your notebook, with jupyter notebook, and it should open in Safari.

If anyone has any insight on how to make this work for Chrome, that would be much appreciated.