IPython not available in Spyder

Question

I don't think I'm suffering from the problem in this closely related question. I'm running Linux Mint 16 (based on Ubuntu 13.10) and have Spyder 2.2.5 and IPython 0.13.2. Under the `Interpreters` menu I only see `Open a Python interpreter...` and not an option to open an IPython interpreter. Is there anything I have to do to "show" Spyder where IPython "is"? Here is the output of my "Optional Dependencies": ``` IPython >=0.13 : 0.13.2 (OK) matplotlib >=1.0: 1.2.1 (OK) pep8 >=0.6 : None (NOK) pyflakes >=0.5.0: 0.7.3 (OK) pylint >=0.25 : None (NOK) rope >=0.9.2 : 0.9.2 (OK) sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.1.3 (OK) ```

Accepted Answer

In principle you should be able to open an IPython console with `View` -> `Windows` -> `IPython console`... do you have this? If this is not an option, try this: from an interpreter window,

```
import IPython
IPython.start_ipython()
```

IPython not available in Spyder

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