FAQ

December 16, 2019 ยท View on GitHub

This document is a set of quick questions and generally useful FAQs.

Installation

virtualenv

  1. Install pip sudo apt-get install python3-pip

  2. Install virtualenv using pip3 sudo pip3 install virtualenv

  3. Create the virtual environment virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.6 practicaldl

  4. Active the virtual environment source practicaldl/bin/activate

  5. When we want to exit, use the deactivate command deactivate

  6. Use pip to install the necessary packages (listed in each chapter's README.md) in the virtual environment only.

Within the virtualenv environment, please install the following:

TensorFlow 2.0 Environment

Please follow the instructions on the website. Keras will also be installed as part of TensorFlow 2.0.

For Chapter 14 - Building the Purrfect Cat Locator App with TensorFlow Object Detection API, please use the protoc.sh script to install everything needed.

Jupyter Notebook

  1. Install jupyter inside the virtualenv.

  2. Run using jupyter notebook. You can also add --ip 0.0.0.0 --port 8888 --no-browser if you want to remotely access the notebooks.

Tmux

Use tmux to keep sessions ongoing.