A failure to import IPython and matplotlib is falsely attributed to a a failure to import ipywidgets. Matplotlib is not a requirement for fastprogress and so this is an easy error to cause but requires source-code delving to debug.
https://github.com/fastai/fastprogress/blob/e7d108f5906ed9ab8d90502ec8b6d0253bd0e3db/fastprogress/fastprogress.py#L97-L103