Installation and Setup Instructions for Code
Instructions for setting up an environment for the code in the book are provided in this chapter. These instructions:
- Have been tested on macOS 10.15 and Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS. You may have to translate these instructions for Windows.
- Only cover the CPU version of TensorFlow. For the latest GPU installation instructions, please follow https://www.tensorflow.org/install/gpu. Please note that the use of a GPU is highly recommended. It will cut down the training times of complex models from days to hours.
The installation uses Anaconda and pip
. It is assumed that Anaconda is set up and ready to go on your machine. Note that we use some new and some uncommon packages. These packages may not be available through conda
. We will use pip
in such cases.
Notes:
- On macOS:
conda
49.2,pip
20.3.1 - On Ubuntu:
conda
4.6.11,pip
20.0.2