Installing the necessary tools to start a JupyterHub instance

debJupyterHub.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# set up JupyterHub in a Debian instance
#

sudo apt-get update

echo 'export TERM=xterm' >> $HOME/.profile

sudo apt-get -y install bzip2 gcc libdigest-sha-perl libgmp-dev make python3 python3-pip python3-venv npm nodejs-legacy libzmq3-dev

sudo useradd -r rhea

sudo pip3 install jupyterhub sudospawner jsonschema ipywidgets

sudo groupadd shadow
sudo chgrp shadow /etc/shadow
sudo chmod g+r /etc/shadow
sudo usermod -a -G shadow rhea
sudo setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /usr/bin/nodejs

sudo mkdir /etc/jupyterhub
sudo chown rhea /etc/jupyterhub
cd /etc/jupyterhub
# sudo -u rhea openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -days XXX