Jupyter Book build fails after default create #166

MantiMantilla · 2020-10-22T07:03:10Z

MantiMantilla
Oct 22, 2020

I'm still learning how this all works so please bear with me.

I'm running conda 4.8.5 on my Windows 10 machine. I've already installed all necessary Jupyter extensions, I think. (Jupyter Lab, Jupyter Notebook, Jupyter Book, Node.js, and their dependencies).

The problem might have to do with the fact that I've installed Miniconda on a separate (D:/) drive.

I've set up a virtual environment (MyEnv) with all the packages I might need for this project. These are the steps I follow:

Launch CMD window
$ conda activate MyEnv
$ jupyter-lab --notebook-dir "Documents/Jupyter Books"
At this point a browser tab opens running Jupyter Lab
From the launcher within Jupyter Lab, open a terminal
$ cd "Documents/Jupyter Books"
$ jb create MyCoolBook
New folder with template book contents gets created in this directory (Yay!)
Without editing anything: $ jb build MyCoolBook
A folder gets added to MyCoolBook called _build, but it doesn't contain much more than a few CSS files.
The terminal throws this error traceback which wasn't very helpful to me. The issue may be obvious to an experienced user.

I'm really at my wit's end. I've reset the entire environment a few times trying to get this to work. What do you suggest? A big thank you in advance. I'm considering submitting a bug report but I want to rule out the very reasonable possibility that I'm being silly.