Local environment setup to run most GANs for image generators

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##***WORK-IN-PROGRESS***##

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How to setup your Local Environment for GANs 🦾

This will walk you through getting your environment setup to run most of the GANs with Anaconda as a Virtual Python Environment.

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Tutorial Index

1. Windows Local
2. Windows Subsystem for Linux
3. Linux

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System Requirements:

OS: Windows (11/10/8/7), Ubuntu(19,20)

GPU: Nvidia (AMD hasn't been tested)

VRAM: 6gb+

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A) Windows Local

1. Download Tools!

• 1.A. Cuda enabled GPU
  • Latest Nvidia Drivers
    • https://www.nvidia.com/Download
  • CUDA Toolkit for your version
    • https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads
    • https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-quick-start-guide
• 1.B. Python (Anaconda)
  • We use anaconda to make it easier to manage different projects
  • Virtual python environment and versioning
  • Anaconda also includes Jupyter Notebook pre-installed
    • https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual#Downloads
• 1.C. Git
  • version control manager for code
  • we just use it to download repos from GitHub
  • Must be on system PATH
    • When installing select the option add the PATH
    • https://git-scm.com/downloads
• 1.D. FFmpeg
  • Video encoding tool library
  • we use this mainly to turn image sequences into videos
  • Must be on system PATH
    • https://www.wikihow.com/Install-FFmpeg-on-Windows
    • https://ffmpeg.org/download.html
• 1.E. ImageMagick
  • software suite for displaying, creating, converting, modifying, and editing raster images.
  • used in some projects but handy to have already installed
    • https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php
• 1.F. Wget
  • used to download models for projects
  • Windows users need this version
    • https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/
  • Linux users can just use the package in their distributions
• 1.G. cURL
  • used to download models, some projects use this instead of wget
  • Latest versions of windows have cURL pre installed
  • Older versions that don't include cURL use this one
    • https://curl.se/windows/
  • Linux users can just use the package in their distributions

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B) Windows w/ subsystem for linux!

1. Enable subsystem for linux on windows!

• Option A (control panel)
  • open control panel and click "Programs" from here select "Turn windows feature on or off"
  • this should have opened a new window with a list of features, scroll all the way to the bottom and select "Windows Subsystem for Linux", restart your pc after installing
  • now you actually need a linux distribution
• Option B (PowerShell)
  • Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
  • Optional: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName VirtualMachinePlatform

2. Download & Prepare linux Distro

• open the microsoft store app and search "Linux", i went with Ubuntu 20.04
• setup username and password for linux distribution
• run the following command to update some things sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

3. Download & Prepare Anaconda

• download anaconda with wget https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2021.11-Linux-x86_64.sh
• install the library with bash Anaconda3-2021.11-Linux-x86_64.sh
• run source bachrc to make use of install
• install pytorch in conda with conda install pytorch torchvision torchaudio cudatoolkit=11.3 -c pytorch

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Linux Local

Coming Soon!