• you need the following dependencies: pickleshare, zmq, pexpect. You can install them (each) with pip and pip3, or ask your (Debian) system administrator to run

sudo aptitude install python-pickleshare python3-pickleshare python-zmq python3-zmq python-pexpect python3-pexpect

• then you can run the following:

pip install jupyter --user
pip3 install jupyter --user
.local/bin/ipython3 kernelspec install-self --user

• If you want a server, additionally generate a certificate and tell jupyter to use it:

openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 900 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout jupyter_key.key -out jupyter_cert.pem
jupyter --generate-config

• … edit the created file, and finally for a comfortable shortcut…

ln -s .local/bin/jupyter-notebook bin/jupyter

• … and if you want the server to be always up, just run crontab -e and add the following line:

@reboot jupyter