I've been running around in circles trying to get octave to run in a jupyter notebook using VS Code. I'm hoping to install xeus-octave.

At present, I'm opening VS Code, then opening a terminal in VS Code.

Then I try to follow the instructions here: .html

Based on what I see, it looks like I should install miniconda. So I've installed that, and I've selected it as the kernel in VS Code. Then I try to run the commands. It fails - it says it can't find Mamba.

Every place I look seems to suggest installing a different package, and assumes a lot more expertise than I have.

I just want to write a jupyter notebook that uses Octave, and I've been doing all of my work in VS Code, so I'd like to stick to that.

Is it possible to get xeus-octave to run on VS Code (on Windows), and if so, how?

(and I guess if not, what alternatives exist?)