Using the JupyterLab Terminal

How to use the JupyterLab terminal

The Rubin/LSST data products and the LSST Science Pipelines tools can both be accessed from the command line of a JupyterLab terminal tab. A terminal session can be started by clicking on the terminal icon in the Jupyterlab launch pad. As described in the default message that appears in all newly-launched terminals, to create a Rubin Observatory environment in a JupyterLab terminal session and set up the full set of packages, users must first execute:

setup lsst_distrib

For example, to query and retrieve data sets using the Butler (see What is the Butler, and when do I use it?, below), command-line tools are available as documented here. Type butler --help in any terminal to see a list of available butler functionality.