Installing Turi Create on Python 3.6 Anaconda Environment

Installing TuriCreate on Python 3.6 Anaconda Environment

1) Check what Python version Apple Turi Create supports

https://github.com/apple/turicreate

Turi Create requires:

• Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6

2) Switch to Python 3.6 environment

$ source activate py36

$ conda env list
# conda environments:
/Users/uki/.julia/conda/3
/Users/uki/.julia/packages/ORCA/uEiWT/deps
base /Volumes/DATA/anaconda3
py2 /Volumes/DATA/anaconda3/envs/py2
py36 * /Volumes/DATA/anaconda3/envs/py36

3) Find TuriCreate v5.1.0 package

Browse: https://anaconda.org/derickl/turicreate

$ conda install -c derickl turicreate

4) Install Jupyter Notebook kernel conda module 

$ conda install ipykernel

5) Make sure all the packages are matching and updated

$ conda update --all

6) Install Jupyter Notebook kernel with this Environment

python -m ipykernel install --user --name py36 --display-name "Python 3.6 Turi (env py36)"
Installed kernelspec py36 in /Users/uki/Library/Jupyter/kernels/py36

7) Backup your Environment

Just because things go wrong all the time.

$ conda env export > environment_py36_20181102.yml

8) Start Jupyter notebook

$ jupyter notebook

Test Turi in Jupyter Notebook

import turicreate as turi
WARNING: You are using MXNet 1.2.1 which may result in breaking behavior. To fix this, please install the currently recommended version: pip uninstall -y mxnet && pip install mxnet==1.1.0 If you want to use a CUDA GPU, then change 'mxnet' to 'mxnet-cu90' (adjust 'cu90' depending on your CUDA version):

(py36) $ pip uninstall -y mxnet && pip install mxnet==1.1.0