Qiskit and IPython conf files do not exist

I had installed the qiskit-textbook distribution of Qiskit using this command : pip install git+https://github.com/qiskit-community/qiskit-textbook.git#subdirectory=qiskit-textbook-src

The tutorial then said to change the contents of the configuration file located at ~/.qiskit/settings.conf but I can’t find the folder at ~/. I can’t find the iPython configuration file either at ~/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_kernel_config.py for some reason.

How do I fix this?

Answer

• If you don’t have the ~/.qiskit/settings.conf you can create that yourself at that location (see this answer here and the docs here).

• If you don’t have ~/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_kernel_config.py, try running ipython profile create and see if it then appears.