diff --git a/getting_started/getting_started.bat b/getting_started/getting_started.bat
index d0da9b60fb810ea06a7dcf3fcca6aea828756f40..c536cc21103aa721dcda68066fe732e3bd81eed9 100644
--- a/getting_started/getting_started.bat
+++ b/getting_started/getting_started.bat
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ set FLATLAND_BASEDIR=%~dp0\..
 
 cd %FLATLAND_BASEDIR%
 
-conda install -c conda-forge tox-conda || goto :error
-conda install tox || goto :error
-tox -v -e start_jupyter --recreate || goto :error
+call conda install -y -c conda-forge tox-conda || goto :error
+call conda install -y tox || goto :error
+call tox -v -e start_jupyter --recreate || goto :error
 
 
 goto :EOF
diff --git a/getting_started/getting_started.sh b/getting_started/getting_started.sh
index 3d5539c0895bc3ba78bcc7d7efcb4c2d51b0ff2b..0e63b083fae77b7c1a2f8599852e9f8719537976 100644
--- a/getting_started/getting_started.sh
+++ b/getting_started/getting_started.sh
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ FLATLAND_BASEDIR=$(dirname "$0")/..
 FLATLAND_BASEDIR=$(realpath "$FLATLAND_BASEDIR")
 cd ${FLATLAND_BASEDIR}
 
-conda install -c conda-forge tox-conda
-conda install tox
+conda install -y -c conda-forge tox-conda
+conda install -y tox
 tox -v -e start_jupyter &
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index e34a1e496b5317b95f61ec2c52f060d2bb7498b5..80da9ccd9d646176b69826b3f2f44b2e6047c0b6 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -148,11 +148,10 @@ conda_channels :
 ; run tests from subfolder to ensure that resources are accessed via resources and not via relative paths
 changedir = {envtmpdir}/6f59bc68108c3895b1828abdd04b9a06
 commands =
-; run tests from subfolder to ensure that resources are accessed via resources and not via relative paths
-    sh -c 'jupyter nbextension install --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension'
-    sh -c 'jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension'
-    sh -c 'jupyter nbextension install --py --sys-prefix jpy_canvas'
-    sh -c 'jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix jpy_canvas'
+    jupyter nbextension install --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension
+    jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension
+    jupyter nbextension install --py --sys-prefix jpy_canvas
+    jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix jpy_canvas
 ; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35545402/how-to-run-an-ipynb-jupyter-notebook-from-terminal/35545463
     sh -c 'ls {toxinidir}/notebooks/*.ipynb  | xargs -n 1 jupyter nbconvert --to python'
     sh -c 'ls {toxinidir}/notebooks/*.py  | xargs -I{} -n 1 sh -c "echo -e \"\n====== Running {} ========\n\"; ipython {}"'
@@ -178,7 +177,12 @@ conda_deps =
 conda_channels :
     conda-forge
     anaconda
+changedir = {envtmpdir}/toxinidir
 commands =
+    jupyter nbextension install --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension
+    jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension
+    jupyter nbextension install --py --sys-prefix jpy_canvas
+    jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix jpy_canvas
     jupyter notebook
 
 [testenv]