Thank you utechner for your reply. But I am posting a reply to my earlier 
message as I seem to have solved the problem.

I found a Ubuntu apps page which had a download for ipython with qtconsole. 
I used Software center (Ubuntu 12.04) to install it. Somehow that got 
spyder to start! Now in spyder I get BOTH Console and iPython console. :-) 
Uncheck what you don't want and check what you want in their respective 
Settings and "Voila!".



On Thursday, March 7, 2013 10:57:47 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
>
>
> I tried pip install -U on zmq and pyzmq and get "No distributions at all 
> found for zmq"
>
>
> On Thursday, March 7, 2013 10:39:48 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for your reply. I did sudo pip install -U spyder. i could read 
>> that 2.2.0Beta3 was being downloaded and installed. Now if I try to launch 
>> spyder from an xterm I get a bunch of errors. the last of which is 
>> "raise ImportError("%s requires pyzmq >= %s"%(module, minimum_version))
>> ImportError: IPython.zmq requires pyzmq >= 2.1.4"
>>
>> Also I get some gui errors which seem to indicate python has problems 
>> with some numpy files of type filename.so.
>>
>> :-(
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 9:24:14 PM UTC-5, Redoubts wrote:
>>>
>>> I believe only spyder version 2.1.13 and above have proper support for 
>>> IPython 0.13. You should update your editor to a more recent version. 
>>> 2.2.0Beta3 has been pretty stable for me lately.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 12:23:50 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have similar setup as Youssef though I am not entirely sure which Qt 
>>>> I have (but PyQt is same). 
>>>> Under Preferences -> Console -> Advanced Settings (Tab) not only is 
>>>> "open ipython interpreter" greyed out, I do not have the "Start an IPython 
>>>> kernel at startup" either! 
>>>> Do you ahev any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, November 8, 2012 1:10:56 PM UTC-5, Carlos Córdoba wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  It's OK it's greyed out because that option is only available when 
>>>>> IPython 0.10 is installed. For IPython 0.11+, please check the option 
>>>>> "Start an IPython kernel at startup". That should automatically open an 
>>>>> IPython console.
>>>>>
>>>>> As I said before, we are aware that the wording of this option is 
>>>>> quite confuse and so we already fixed it in 2.2.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Carlos
>>>>>
>>>>> El 08/11/12 12:28, Youssef Barhomi escribió:
>>>>>  
>>>>> Hi,  
>>>>>
>>>>> The check box "Start iPython at startup" is still greyed out for me!
>>>>>
>>>>> OS: Ubuntu 12.04
>>>>> Spyder 2.1.9
>>>>>  
>>>>> Python 2.7.3, Qt 4.8.1, PyQt4 (API v1) 4.9.1 on Linux
>>>>>
>>>>> iPython 0.13
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  Thanks a lot!
>>>>>
>>>>> Youssef
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, October 8, 2012 3:40:25 PM UTC-4, Timmie wrote: 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 04.10.2012 19:15, schrieb adeel: 
>>>>>> > Timmie, 
>>>>>> > 
>>>>>> > Go-to     Tools>Preferences>Console>Advanced Settings(Tab) 
>>>>>> > 
>>>>>> > then check "Start ipython at startup" 
>>>>>> Thanks. Now it works. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Advanced = hidden in this case.... 
>>>>>>
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