Installing to system

Discussion
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Excuse me for the beginner question (new to MXnet), but could anyone enlighten me on how to install MXnet to the system for all users with Python 2 and 3 bindings?

I’m following the directions at
https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/install/ubuntu_setup.html

Everything compiles, I get a lib/libmxnet.so and everything, but there is no instruction for how to actually install it, and “sudo make install” does nothing. “cd python;sudo pip install .” gives “RuntimeError: Cannot find the MXNet library.” even though it exists in ./lib/libmxnet.so.

Thanks!

Platform: Jetson TX2

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Hi @wuxiekeji, so just to confirm, the standard install steps listed here do not work? Is MXNet library still not found when you pip install mxnet?

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Hi @thomelane,
Those steps don’t work – I’m on arm64 with cuda9.0 (Jetson TX2). pip complains that it cannot find a version, hence needing to compile from scratch.

The standard install procedure works fine on my x86 boxes though.

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@kellen would you be able to give some pointers here on how you’ve built for jetson? thanks!

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Hey @wuxiekeji. We’ve tried to make this easier for users. Could you give ‘pip install mxnet-jetson’ a shot?