# Installation

## User install

To install simply run:

```
pip install mpl-interactions
```

The above only has Matplotlib as a dependency. If you plan on using `mpl_interactions` in a Jupyter Notebook or JupyterLab then you should install with

```
pip install mpl_interactions[jupyter]
```

This will install [ipympl](https://github.com/matplotlib/ipympl) and {doc}`ipywidgets <ipywidgets:index>` for you. If you use JupyterLab it is significantly easier get working for JupyterLab 3+.

## Setup for Jupyterlab 3+

Installation of widgets was made significantly easier for JupyterLab 3+. Simply make sure you have a new version of JupyterLab:

```bash
pip install --upgrade jupyterlab mpl-interactions[jupyter]
```

## Setup for JupyterLab \<= 2

If you plan on using `mpl_interactions` in notebooks with [JupyterLab](https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#) version 2.x or lower then you need to follow the below steps to ensure you have a fully working installation of [ipympl](https://github.com/matplotlib/ipympl). In particular, you need to make sure `nodejs > 10` is available and that you have installed [`jupyterlab-manager`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager).

```bash
pip install --upgrade ipympl
conda install -c conda-forge nodejs=13
jupyter labextension install @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager jupyter-matplotlib
```

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## Development installation

First create your own fork of <https://github.com/mpl-extensions/mpl-interactions>.

```bash
git clone <your fork>
cd mpl-interactions
pip install -e ".[dev]"
```