Problem:
When running
jupyter lab
you see the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/jupyter-lab", line 5, in <module> from jupyterlab.labapp import main File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/jupyterlab/labapp.py", line 13, in <module> from jupyter_server.serverapp import flags File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/jupyter_server/serverapp.py", line 39, in <module> from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jinja2/__init__.py", line 33, in <module> from jinja2.environment import Environment, Template File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 15, in <module> from jinja2 import nodes File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jinja2/nodes.py", line 23, in <module> from jinja2.utils import Markup File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jinja2/utils.py", line 656, in <module> from markupsafe import Markup, escape, soft_unicode ImportError: cannot import name 'soft_unicode' from 'markupsafe' (/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/markupsafe/__init__.py)
Solution:
You need to install an older version of markupsafe
using
sudo pip3 install markupsafe==2.0.1
until other packages have been updated.