Beginner Installation of FastAi 0.7 on Windows 10 Nvidia GPU 10xx

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I made an unwritten assumption: that the beginner is somewhat familiar with the following post and the issues reported by other users.

Howto: installation on Windows

Whilst Windows isn’t officially supported for fastai or the lessons at this stage, it does seem to be working now so those with the patience and boldness to venture into something a little new and somewhat untested, here’s instructions on getting started running on a GPU on Windows. (NB: most people using Windows on their laptops are advised to use a cloud GPU provider like Paperspace - accessing a cloud provider from Windows is well supported and tested for this course). You must have an Nvi…

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Now to your questions:

4. refers to this post (thanks!) which worked for me:
   Howto: installation on Windows - #254 by toddprater

also this fiona fix that i have not tried:

Installing fastai on Windows 10: Failed building wheel for fiona

Hi! I’ve got the same issue with installing fast.ai. It follows from the traceback that fiona is a package that geopandas depends on, which plotnine depends on. Plotnine is a python version of the glorious ggplot2, so it is not strictly needed to train neural networks. However, it does get fetched via pip, so you have to build it. To solve the problem, you can do the following: Do the installation the usual way right until you encounter this error. Activate the environment with conda activate…

7. refers to no. 8 in Jeremy’s HowTo for Win:
   Howto: installation on Windows