Installation Guide

We can use swcli to complete all tasks for Starwhale Instances. swcli is written by pure python3, which can be installed easily by the pip command.Here are some installation tips that can help you get a cleaner, unambiguous, no dependency conflicts swcli python environment.

Installing Advice

DO NOT install Starwhale in your system's global Python environment. It will cause a python dependency conflict problem.

Quick install

python3 -m pip install starwhale

Prerequisites

• Python 3.7 ~ 3.11
• Linux or macOS
• Conda (optional)

In the Ubuntu system, you can run the following commands:

sudo apt-get install python3 python3-venv python3-pip

#If you want to install multi python versions
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python3.7 python3.8 python3.9 python3-pip python3-venv python3.8-venv python3.7-venv python3.9-venv

swcli works on macOS. If you run into issues with the default system Python3 on macOS, try installing Python3 through the homebrew:

brew install python3

Install swcli

Install with venv

python3 -m venv ~/.cache/venv/starwhale
source ~/.cache/venv/starwhale/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install starwhale

swcli --version

sudo ln -sf "$(which swcli)" /usr/local/bin/

Install with conda

conda create --name starwhale --yes  python=3.9
conda activate starwhale
python3 -m pip install starwhale

swcli --version

sudo ln -sf "$(which swcli)" /usr/local/bin/

👏 Now, you can use swcli in the global environment.

Install for the special scenarios

# for Audio processing
python -m pip install starwhale[audio]

# for Image processing
python -m pip install starwhale[pillow]

# for swcli model server command
python -m pip install starwhale[server]

# for built-in online serving
python -m pip install starwhale[online-serve]

# install all dependencies
python -m pip install starwhale[all]

Update swcli

#for venv
python3 -m pip install --upgrade starwhale

#for conda
conda run -n starwhale python3 -m pip install --upgrade starwhale

Uninstall swcli

python3 -m pip remove starwhale

rm -rf ~/.config/starwhale
rm -rf ~/.starwhale