Fastai v1 install issues thread

[shoof (Xu Fei)]

So you’re saying that it was sufficient to update your conda to the latest and the problem was fixed.

Yes.

And unlike anaconda, requiring a certain conda version should work for both miniconda and anaconda users, correct?

My miniconda setup works. I suppose Anaconda should work too. If people use different Python versions, their conda versions may not update to the latest one (5.3.0 on Python 3.7 for now?) but so far Pyton 3.6 + miniconda 4.5.11 + Ubuntu 18.04 have no issues.

If for some reason people cannot update conda to the latest verison, a quick and dirty solution is to pip install from the github repo directly
pip install git+https://github.com/fastai/fastai/

This approach does not require conda update at all. I think it may not be sustainable throughout the course and may cause more issues with different setups though.