Darkflow: Installation Issues

[eslamahmedkhair]

I installed with pip install . Is there anything else that I should do after this step?

Then I tried to execute this
./flow --model cfg/yolo-new.cfg and I got the following error
No module named cy_yolo_findboxes

Looked at other issues such as #168 but the solutions are not consistent with the current repo

for example (From #168 )
cd ./cython_utils python3 setup.py build_ext --inplace cd ..

The directory cython_utils doesn't contain the setup.py in the firstplace, because setup.py appears to be in darkflow-master directory, So I tried executing it in that directory and I got this error
No module named 'setuptools'

Any Hints?

[bendidi]

Hello,
just cloned the repo , and got the same issue :
No module named cy_yolo_findboxes
any help would would be appreciated !

[abagshaw]

Instead of running with ./flow can you try just using flow and see if that works?

[eslamahmedkhair]

can you try just using flow and see if that works?

got flow: command not found

[bendidi]

I solved the problem, by installing using pip install -e .
I was using the in-place install at first

[abagshaw]

@eslamahmedkhair Is this working for you now? If you installed using pip install . or pip install -e . then the flow command should be available globally. If you build the cython extensions in place you have to use ./flow in the folder where darkflow is placed.

[eslamahmedkhair]

it seems that the first installation was unsuccessful because I needed admin rights (i.e. sudo)
Works like a charm now!

One more thing please,

I tried to execute
flow --imgdir sample_img/ --model cfg/yolo-tiny.cfg --load bin/yolo-tiny.weights --gpu 1.0
but I changed --model cfg/yolo-tiny.cfg to --model cfg/tiny-yolo.cfg to match the file name provided in the cfg directory and I got the following errorAssertionError: expect 64701556 bytes, found 180357512

[tungalbert99]

Make sure you download the right weights for the correct model. (I think you download the yolo-tiny weights from COCO not from VOC)

[eslamahmedkhair]

Still I downloaded yolo-voc.weights from darknet and executed:
flow --imgdir sample_img/ --model cfg/yolo-voc.cfg --load bin/yolo-voc.weights --gpu 1.0
and got: Over-read bin/yolo-voc.weights

[eslamahmedkhair]

OK, so I managed to run the following:
flow --imgdir sample_img/ --model cfg/yolo-voc.cfg --load bin/yolo.weights --gpu 1.0
however, there was no detections at all!! (yolo.weights was obtained from here )

but this: flow --imgdir sample_img/ --model cfg/tiny-yolo-voc.cfg --load bin/tiny-yolo-voc.weights --gpu 1.0
did some detections but the quality/accuracy was too low as this is the tiny model (tiny-yolo-voc.weights was obtained from here)

Any reason why the yolo-voc.weights produces no detections?!

[eslamahmedkhair]

HINT: Use all the cfgs and weights from here, the ones that are provided within the repo has be tempered with somehow!

[JosephWatkins]

I'm having some difficulties and would appreciate any help you can provide. I've copied the weights in the bin folder and am now receiving the following error: (newcvtest)

bash-3.2$ flow --model cfg/yolo-tiny.cfg --load bin/tiny-yolo.weights
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/anaconda3/bin/flow", line 4, in
__import__('pkg_resources').require('darkflow==1.0.0')
File "/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3147, in
@_call_aside
File "/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3131, in _call_aside
f(args, *kwargs)
File "/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3160, in _initialize_master_working_set
working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
File "/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 666, in _build_master
ws.require(__requires__)
File "/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 984, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File "/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 870, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'darkflow==1.0.0' distribution was not found and is required by the application
(newcvtest) bash-3.2$

Darkflow is installed, so I'm not certain what's wrong here. Your feedback is greatly appreciated!

[AdamSzendrei]

did somebody find out the problem with the error message?
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'darkflow==1.0.0' distribution was not found and is required by the application

I have the same issue

[JakupGuven]

I have the same issue as well

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/flow", line 4, in
__import__('pkg_resources').require('darkflow==1.0.0')
File "/home/jakup/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3088, in
@_call_aside
File "/home/jakup/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3072, in _call_aside
f(args, *kwargs)
File "/home/jakup/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3101, in _initialize_master_working_set
working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
File "/home/jakup/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 574, in _build_master
ws.require(__requires__)
File "/home/jakup/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 892, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File "/home/jakup/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 778, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'darkflow==1.0.0' distribution was not found and is required by the application

[DaveVoyles]

Same issue.

[rgoes]

Please, someone help me, I am having the same issue. After running the flow command, it opens a file containing,

!C:\Users\rgoesAnaconda3\python.exe

EASY-INSTALL-DEV-SCRIPT: 'darkflow==1.0.0','flow'

__requires__ = 'darkflow==1.0.0'
__import__('pkg_resources').require('darkflow==1.0.0')
__file__ = 'C:\RenaultProjects\yolo_project\darkflow\flow'
exec(compile(open(__file__).read(), __file__, 'exec'))

Best,