Hi everyone, I am new to Julia (and Python for that matter) and, after watching some nice MIT lectures on YouTube, was inspired to try to install IJulia, but am having some difficulties.
I'm on a MacBook Pro running OS X Yosemite (10.10.1). I tried to follow the instructions here: - https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl I did not have Python installed, so I downloaded and installed Anaconda and ran conda update ipython Everything seemed fine. If I run ipython from the command line, I get a command prompt and can enter "1+1" and get an output "2", which seems encouraging. Then I launch Julia and enter: julia> Pkg.add("IJulia") It seems ok. Then I enter: julia> using IJulia It seems ok. Then I enter: julia> notebook() I get a bunch of scary error messages (pasted below). I am pretty sure there is something very simple/embarrassing I'm missing. Any ideas? Thank you for any help. Best regards, Eric *julia> **notebook()* Traceback (most recent call last): File "//anaconda/bin/ipython", line 6, in <module> sys.exit(start_ipython()) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/__init__.py", line 120, in start_ipython return launch_new_instance(argv=argv, **kwargs) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/config/application.py", line 563, in launch_instance app.initialize(argv) File "<string>", line 2, in initialize File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/config/application.py", line 92, in catch_config_error return method(app, *args, **kwargs) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/terminal/ipapp.py", line 321, in initialize super(TerminalIPythonApp, self).initialize(argv) File "<string>", line 2, in initialize File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/config/application.py", line 92, in catch_config_error return method(app, *args, **kwargs) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/core/application.py", line 381, in initialize self.parse_command_line(argv) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/terminal/ipapp.py", line 316, in parse_command_line return super(TerminalIPythonApp, self).parse_command_line(argv) File "<string>", line 2, in parse_command_line File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/config/application.py", line 92, in catch_config_error return method(app, *args, **kwargs) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/config/application.py", line 475, in parse_command_line return self.initialize_subcommand(subc, subargv) File "<string>", line 2, in initialize_subcommand File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/config/application.py", line 92, in catch_config_error return method(app, *args, **kwargs) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/config/application.py", line 406, in initialize_subcommand subapp = import_item(subapp) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/utils/importstring.py", line 42, in import_item module = __import__(package, fromlist=[obj]) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/html/notebookapp.py", line 81, in <module> from IPython.consoleapp import IPythonConsoleApp File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/consoleapp.py", line 43, in <module> from IPython.kernel.zmq.kernelapp import ( File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/kernel/zmq/kernelapp.py", line 54, in <module> from .ipkernel import Kernel File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/kernel/zmq/ipkernel.py", line 40, in <module> from .zmqshell import ZMQInteractiveShell File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/kernel/zmq/zmqshell.py", line 36, in <module> from IPython.core.payloadpage import install_payload_page File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/core/payloadpage.py", line 24, in <module> from docutils.core import publish_string File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docutils/core.py", line 20, in <module> from docutils import frontend, io, utils, readers, writers File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docutils/frontend.py", line 41, in <module> import docutils.utils File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docutils/utils/__init__.py", line 20, in <module> import docutils.io File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docutils/io.py", line 18, in <module> from docutils.utils.error_reporting import locale_encoding, ErrorString, ErrorOutput File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docutils/utils/error_reporting.py", line 47, in <module> locale_encoding = locale.getlocale()[1] or locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 543, in getdefaultlocale return _parse_localename(localename) File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 475, in _parse_localename raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8 *ERROR: failed process: Process(`ipython notebook --profile julia`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]* * in pipeline_error at process.jl:502* * in notebook at /Users/ericforgy/.julia/v0.3/IJulia/src/IJulia.jl:177* * in notebook at /Users/ericforgy/.julia/v0.3/IJulia/src/IJulia.jl:176*
