Installation Instructions

[hakasapl]

Hello,

I'm working on getting this to work in an HPC computing cluster I am working on. I installed the PyPi package in this repo, but I am unsure of how to get this working other than that. I am running jupyterhub and jupyterlab. Is this compatible with jupyterlab version 1.1.3?

I'm also a little confused about exactly how to use this. Would it be possible to add more info in the readme?

My hopes are to run GUI applications within jupyterlab, either a desktop environment or a vnc session to a specific application.

Any info would be greatly appreciated, thanks for your time.

[djangoliv]

Hello,

I tried to install jupyter-desktop-server like this:

python3 -m pip install --no-cache -U websockify jupyter-server-proxy
git clone https://github.com/yuvipanda/jupyter-desktop-server
cd jupyter-desktop-server
python3 -m pip install ./jupyter-desktop-server

But the websockify command is not launched.
Are there any instructions missing ?

Regards

[manics]

Unfortunately installing websockify from pypi does not currently include the compiled library that wraps the VNCserver. If you install websockify from conda the library is included. See for example https://github.com/yuvipanda/jupyter-desktop-server/blob/master/environment.yml

[djangoliv]

Thanks @manics but the command is still not launched

Don't I miss other instructions ? (maybe in the jupyterhub_config.py?)

[codinesh1795]

Can someone kindly tell me how to start a VNC session after installation?

[mjuric]

FWIW, I was also super-confused early on about how to get started. Here's a minimal(ish) Dockerfile I came up with after some reading, that may be useful for those who are unfamiliar with repo2docker, binder, etc.:

FROM jupyter/datascience-notebook:latest

USER root

RUN apt-get -y update && apt-get install -y dbus-x11 firefox xfce4 xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfce4-settings xorg xubuntu-icon-theme

USER $NB_USER

RUN conda install -c manics websockify
RUN pip install jupyter-desktop-server

After you build it, run the image & connect to http://127.0.0.1:8888/?token=xxxxxx. as instructed, the desktop option shows up in:

which opens a new window with the VNC session. Hope this helps...