Installation

Getting the source code

The source files for nbgrader and its documentation are hosted on GitHub. To clone the nbgrader repository:

git clone https://github.com/jupyter/nbgrader
cd nbgrader

Installing and building nbgrader

nbgrader installs and builds with one command:

pip install -r dev-requirements.txt -e .

Installing notebook extensions

Install the notebook extensions. The --symlink option is recommended since it updates the extensions whenever you update the nbgrader repository. Finally, activate the notebook extensions:

nbgrader extension install --symlink
nbgrader extension activate

Installing Phantomjs

To run tests while developing nbgrader and its documentation, Phantomjs must be installed.

Install using npm

If you have npm installed, you can install phantomjs using:

npm install phantomjs

Install using other package managers

If you do not have npm installed, you can still install phantomjs.

On OS X:

brew update
brew install phantomjs

On Linux:

apt-get update
apt-get install phantomjs