Incubator-mxnet: Install mxnet into anaconda's python

[jacklxc]

I'm trying to use minpy which requires mxnet in anaconda's jupyter notebook. minpy can be installed using anaconda's pip successfully.

However there is an issue on installing mxnet. I noticed using anaconda's "pip install mxnet" does not work (opencv not found, although opencv.pc clearly exists and the path is correctly set). So I wonder how can I install mxnet into anaconda's python, instead of system's default python by changing some settings? I figured out I can disable using opencv by changing config.mk file. I used a similar way to get both minpy and mxnet work on system's default python.

Thank you.

[zihaolucky]

You should use python setup install under python directory when you are in your anaconda's virtual env.

Follow the instruction here: http://mxnet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/how_to/build.html

[starimpact]

do not use 'sudo' when you type 'python setup install', and your anaconda path should be in environment variable PATH.

[RogerBorras]

Can you provide an easy conda installation for mxnet? It will be very usefull!

[zihaolucky]

@RogerBorras do you mean conda install mxnet?

[RogerBorras]

@zihaolucky Yes :)

[zihaolucky]

Okay, I understand. Since I'm not familiar with conda itself, and tensorflow does support conda install tensorflow, so let's do some research and see if that's possible.

Reference:

https://github.com/conda-forge/tensorflow-feedstock

[RogerBorras]

As far as I know, is not difficult to create a conda installer if you have installed the normal Python version. But I have problems to install it in conda distribution. It would be great for a lot of users if you can provide it. Is avaliable an mxnet conda installer for OSX-64 (but not for windows and linux):

https://anaconda.org/derickl/mxnet

Thanks for your amazing mxnet library!

[zihaolucky]

@RogerBorras Yes, the link in my previous comment might provide a promising source to provide this feature for MXNet easy installation :)

[RogerBorras]

@zihaolucky Great!

[RogerBorras]

@zihaolucky Any progress?? :)

[zihaolucky]

@RogerBorras sorry for no any progress on this direction and let you down.

I've check the material above but fail to get any useful information, besides I'm now working on a project to bring TensorBoard to MXNet so I'm afraid I have no enough energy to work on this for a while. But I would keep it and work again when I have time.

[RogerBorras]

@zihaolucky No problem, I use MXNet in R too and Tensorboard in MXNet will be a great feature!!

[zihaolucky]

Hi @RogerBorras @jacklxc

As I'm working on the TensorBoard project, https://github.com/dmlc/tensorboard/pull/2 I learned how to provide a .whl for easy installation just like TensorFlow does. In TensorFlow, they provide different .whl and TF could be easily installed via pip install $TF_BINARY_URL.

Just pack all external dependencies, like libmxnet.so and setup properly in setup.py, then python setup.py bdist_wheel >/dev/null and you can get the distributable .whl.

I would let you know after I finished the experiment in TensorBoard and provide a proper solution for MXNet.

[RogerBorras]

Great news @zihaolucky! Many thanks for your effort :)

[littlelid]

Hi, I have DONE this by this way:
before you execute bash install-mxnet-XXX.sh , you need do some changes in this .sh file. Don't be afraid,it's very sample.

1. find code in .shfile like this:
   runme python setup.py install
2. change this line to this:
   runme /the/absolute/path/to/anaconda/bin/python setup.py install
3. save the file,and use the bash to run

DONE

[NaiveScript]

Fllowing official installation guid,.At last,you shouldn't use
sudo python setup.py install
Because the sudo option will install mxnet in built in python version.cause anaconda will have a environmental path,you just need to use
python setup.py install
However before that, you should make all the files in ~/mxnet/python with common accecess right,the most easy way is use
sudo chmod -R 777 ~/mxnet/python
before install.
Note, ~/mxnet/python is the path to your python folder in mxnet,you can use absolute path if any problem happens.

[yajiedesign]

This issue is closed due to lack of activity in the last 90 days. Feel free to reopen if this is still an active issue. Thanks!

[RajeshRaja27]

Its not installing on Windows on condaprompt when giving conda install mxnet???
Then How i should install it

[jakirkham]

We at conda-forge would be happy to help you with the review of an mxnet recipe for conda if someone would be interested in submitting one. Issue ( https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/issues/4447 ) would be a great place to discuss this if someone would like to step forward.

[wenboown]

I figured out how to build mxnet from source for conda for macOS 10.12 and 10.13. Here's the step-by-step guide:
https://boknowsit.wordpress.com/2018/05/30/setting-up-mxnet-on-macos-with-conda/