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Removes Python 3.0, Notebook 5 mentions from contributor docs (#15710)
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* Update contributing.rst

Removes a couple of references to obsolete, end-of-life software

* Update contributing.rst

Fixes intra-page link

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Co-authored-by: Michał Krassowski <5832902+krassowski@users.noreply.github.com>
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called something else (such as "python3") then parts of the build
will fail. You may wish to build in a conda environment, or make an
alias.
- Some of the packages used in the development environment require
Python 3.0 or higher. If you encounter an ImportError during the
installation, make sure Python 3.0+ is installed. Also, try using the
Python 3.0+ version of ``pip`` or ``pip3 install -e .`` command to
install JupyterLab from the forked repository.
- If you see an error that says ``Call to 'pkg-config pixman-1 --libs'
returned exit status 127 while in binding.gyp`` while running the
``pip install`` command above, you may be missing packages required
by ``canvas``. Please see `Installing Node.js and jlpm section`_
by ``canvas``. Please see the `Installing Node.js and jlpm section`_
of this guide for instructions on how to install these packages.
- The ``jlpm`` command is a JupyterLab-provided, locked version of the
`yarn <https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/>`__ package manager. If you have
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However, it takes a bit longer to build the sources, so is used only
to build for production by default.

If you are using a version of Jupyter Notebook earlier than 5.3, then
you must also run the following command to enable the JupyterLab server
extension:

.. code:: bash
jupyter serverextension enable --py --sys-prefix jupyterlab
For installation instructions to write documentation, please see
For installation instructions for contributors who want to write documentation, please see
`Writing Documentation <#writing-documentation>`__

Run JupyterLab
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