Before you begin working in a notebook, create an environment to work out of. To learn the basics of working with conda environments, see Environments.
If you do not create an environment before you attempt to download packages, an error occurs. This protects the base /opt/jupyterhub environment.
If you want your environment to be shown as a tile on the JupyterLab launch page, include the ipykernel package in your environment:
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# Replace <VERSION> with your desired version of pythonconda create --name custom_env ipykernel python=<VERSION>