Solution to Fastai Import Errors in AWS (ubuntu)

Intro to Machine Learning (2018)
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I was getting the following error when trying to import from fastai.imports in my AWS machine:

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In case anyone is having a similar issue, the following installs solved the problem for me:

sudo apt-get install libsm6 libxrender1 libfontconfig1

sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-glx

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I’m having the same issue.
Why is this happening? I didn’t have this issue before.
I git clone in this morning. Is this because something changed to the repo recently?

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did you remember the source activate fastai?

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Yes. But it still gave me this error.
Maybe I did something wrong in somewhere else…

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Congrats on solving it - and thanks so much for sharing!

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Help help –
I want to use fastai library on a different environment. So, ‘fastai’ that appears on left side of terminal after activating, I don’t want that, but still I want to use fastai functions. Can I do that too?

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Sure. You’ll need to install all the libs in environment.yml , then you’ll just need to copy or symlink the fastai folder to wherever your code is.

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So, I tried using fastai library in a different environment, but still facing issues.
Things I tried –
• Installed all requirements of fastai from requirements.txt
• Copied fastai to folder where my code is (imports not working by this)
• sys.path.append(“fastai_path”) in code. (getting shared errors)

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That means you’re not using python 3.6

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Thanks. Solved my problem !!

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Hi,
I am getting the fastai import errors in AWS(windows m4.xlarge). Please suggest how to resolve the same in windows.

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Thanks for the instructions. It helped me solve same problem I had on Windows->Ubuntu installation