How to run openMC in Jupyter notebook in WSL

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Hello, I have installed openMC to windows by WSL and running it in terminal with command python3. How can i start running openMC in Jupyter notebook? Help me please

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Launch your Jupyter notebook from the command line on WSL. When the server starts up, you will see something similar to the following:

[C 10:59:53.565 NotebookApp] 
    
    To access the notebook, open this file in a browser:
        file:///home/umarov/.local/share/jupyter/runtime/nbserver-6047-open.html
    Or copy and paste one of these URLs:
        http://localhost:8888/?token=asdfqwertyuiop
     or http://127.0.0.1:8888/?token=asdfqwertyuiop

Then, copy-paste one of the URLs into your browser on Windows, and you will be able to run OpenMC in Jupyter.

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I am doing the same, but I think its opening windows Jupyter notebook, becouse it can not import openMC by command

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@umarov

There are at least two ways you can use openmc by API (jupyter notebook) when you are using WSL under windows:

  1. The first one, consist to install a linux desktop on your linux WSL (by means of an Xserver application: xming) and then you can have your linux interface as a window on your windows system, then you can launch your jupyter editor (web-browser) to use openmc
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the second one, which I discovered recently, is to use an option with VSCODE (which is by the way a powerfull editor supporting notebook too) and then you connect it to your wsl machine, which will allow you to use your python with openmc environnement: this means that you will be able to execute openmc with your vscode editor under windows

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I hope that could help you to find the best way to do it

Best regards

Salah

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VSCODE works perfectly, thank you!

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Iā€™m very happy that could help.

Good luck for the rest