[NLPL Task Force (A)] abel - pip3 install issue

[Yuval Marton]

Note: These package versions were tested on python 3.4, no guarantees for 3.7. So if that’s ok with you, please configure modules/packages with py3.4 .

Thanks,
Yuval



> On Aug 14, 2019, at 3:38 PM, Stephan Oepen <oe at ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> 
> the software installations on Abel will remain functional for as long
> as the system remains available, probably sometime towards the end of
> this year.  nobody is in any hurry to purge python 2.7, even though we
> may say that we do not officially support it :-).
> 
> cheers, oe
> 
>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 7:32 PM Asad Sayeed <asad.sayeed at gu.se> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Actually, we figured out what dependencies it needs, and the
>> nlpl-tensorflow module probably is too advanced for it:
>> 
>>   pyhocon
>>   tensorflow 1.10.0, tfhub 0.2.0
>>   numpy 1.15.4
>>   h5py 2.7.0
>> 
>> Any possibility of rolling a module with these versions, on py3?
>> Previous experience suggests that I can't compile my own tensorflow
>> easily in userspace, though I could be misremembering. Alternatively I
>> can just stick to py2.7 if you're still OK with supporting it.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Yours,
>> --Asad.
>> 
>>> On 2019-08-14 17:11, Asad Sayeed wrote:
>>> Hi Stephan,
>>> 
>>> That worked now, but then it turns out there is another problem. The
>>> tool we are using requires the compiling of some C++ code into a .so
>>> file.  Under the nlpl-tensorflow with python3, it doesn't compile
>>> anymore, possibly due to changes to tensorflow contrib stuff that the
>>> original author of the tool is depending on.  Yuval seems to have
>>> gotten it working on an offsite machine at his end, but it appears
>>> that I will still have to fall back to the python2.7 version because I
>>> am just not going to be able to debug tensorflow C++ code in any
>>> reasonable time.
>>> 
>>> I realize 2.7 is being discontinued but there are still a lot of
>>> "orphaned" graduate-student projects on github that represent
>>> comparatively recent results in "niche" research areas, so I don't
>>> think it will be possible to completely abandon support for py2.7 for
>>> a while...
>>> 
>>> Yours,
>>> --Asad.
>>> 
>>>> On 2019-08-14 16:29, Stephan Oepen wrote:
>>>> hi asad (and yuval),
>>>> 
>>>> please feel free to use the 'infrastructure at nlpl.eu' contact address
>>>> for all technical requests.
>>>> 
>>>>> -bash-4.1$ pip3 install pyhocon
>>>>> -bash: /projects/nlpl/software/tensorflow/1.13/bin/3.7/pip3:
>>>>> /projects/nlpl/software/tensorflow/1.13/bin/python3: bad
>>>>> interpreter: No
>>>>> such file or directory
>>>> i am sorry about this.  i have made it a habit to run 'python3 -m
>>>> pip', hence had not noticed before that this module had an invalid
>>>> 'pip3'.  that should now be fixed, so i imagine 'pip3 install --user'
>>>> should allow you to add minor missing dependencies into your home
>>>> directory?
>>>> 
>>>> oe