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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.

Tutorial Index

Windows Local
Windows Subsystem for Linux
Linux

System Requirements:

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

GPU: Nvidia (AMD hasn't been tested)

VRAM: 6gb+

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

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

Linux Local

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