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I'm trying to install jupyterlab via homebrew using:

brew install jupyterlab

Per the documentation here (https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/jupyterlab), this specifically installs a version of jupyterlab that relies on Python 3.11. However, I have a dependency on a package that is not yet updated to 3.11. Is there a way to tell brew's installed version of jupyterlab to use Python 3.10 instead?

I have tried a few things: 0. Installing python 3.10 in brew with:

brew install python@3.10
  1. Unlinking and/or uninstalling Python3.11 to try to force jupyterlab to use 3.10 with:
brew unlink python@3.11

brew uninstall python@3.11

and then specifically linking 3.10:

brew link python@3.10

But these don't seem to affect what jupyterlab sees or uses.

I see on the brew page that it says:

Additional kernels can be installed into the shared jupyter directory $(brew --prefix)/etc/jupyter

But I don't understand what this means or how this installation happens.

Meru Bhanot
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One possibility (which I recently learned about) is to edit your local copy of the jupyterlab formula, to make it depend on Python 3.10. I successfully did this for the yt-dlp formula.

Check out this question for details: how-do-i-modify-a-homebrew-formula

devdanke
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