Setup Fast.ai v1 on Paperspace Fast.ai Template

setupFastaiV1.md

Setup Fastai v1 on Paperspace

Machine

• Create a Fast.ai machine from public templates w/ P4000 and public IP

Connect to the machine

• $ source deactivate fastai
• $ pip install virtualenv
• $ virtualenv fastai_v1
• $ source activate fastai_v1
• $ pip install torch_nightly -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cu92/torch_nightly.html
• $ pip install fastai

Clone fastai_v1 from GitHub

• $ git clone https://github.com/fastai/fastai repo-fastai-v1/
• $ cd repo-fastai-v1/

Reconfigure jupyter configuration file

Open with vim or nano

• vim ~/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py

Edit lines

• c.NotebookApp.allow_origin = '' to c.NotebookApp.allow_origin = '*'
• c.NotebookApp.ip = 'localhost' to c.NotebookApp.ip = '0.0.0.0'
• c.NotebookApp.allow_remote_access = False to c.NotebookApp.allow_remote_access = True

Then you can run the Jupyter Notebook on the fastai v1 repo directory

We're trying to run some notebook using the fastai v1 installed globally with pip

• $ jupyter notebook

Access your Jupyter and run dogs_cats.ipynb on examples folder

• Try to execute the first cell, if it executes you're a good to go

Let's check the fastai version

• On the dogs_cats.ipynb notebook, add a cell with the following content:

import fastai fastai.version

• It should print

'1.0.6'

this is the version installed with pip

Now let's try to use the fastai v1 cloned from GitHub

Uninstall the fastai pip version

• $ pip uninstall fastai

At the fastai v1 directory cloned from GitHub, run:

• $ tools/run-after-git-clone
• $ pip install -e .[dev]

Start Jupyter

• $ jupyter notebook

Let's run the dogs_cats.ipynb notebook again and check the fastai version

• Try to execute the first cell, if it executes you're a good to go

• Run the cell with the following content:

import fastai fastai.version

• It should print a differente version from that one showed previously - today 10/17/2018 it was:

'1.0.7.dev0'

this is the version from the repo cloned from GitHub

VICTORY 😄 !!!!!

I also did not have the c.NotebookApp.allow_remote_access option and it worked fine. When logging into the jupyter notebook, be sure that you use the papersource ip address instead of localhost in the URL.

I also am getting the same error.

<ipython-input-4-5b8434ff0e47> in <module>()
      2 get_ipython().magic('autoreload 2')
      3 
----> 4 from fastai import *
      5 from fastai.vision import *

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fastai'```

I would suggest instead using the officially supported docs for new users, found here.

These instructions are still useful if you have a NVidia enabled machine and you want to run locally.
Although the way to get the version number is rather:

import fastai
print(fastai.version.__version__)

Hi. I am in the process of installation. When I use the 'ls' command to list all the files, I do not find 'data' file. What should I do?

Hi. I am in the process of installation. When I use the 'ls' command to list all the files, I do not find 'data' file. What should I do?

I have the same problem, any help or solution? Thank you.