Installation

This document contains how to install PaddleGAN and related dependencies. For more product overview, please refer to README.

Requirements

• PaddlePaddle >= 2.1.0
• Python >= 3.6
• CUDA >= 10.1

Install PaddlePaddle

# CUDA10.1
python -m pip install paddlepaddle-gpu==2.1.0.post101 -f https://mirror.baidu.com/pypi/simple

# CPU
python -m pip install paddlepaddle -i https://mirror.baidu.com/pypi/simple

For more installation methods such as conda or source compilation installation methods, please refer to the PaddlePaddle installation documentation.

Make sure that your PaddlePaddle is successfully installed in the required or higher version, and then please use the following command to verify.

# verify that PaddlePaddle is installed successfully in your Python interpreter
>>> import paddle
>>> paddle.utils.run_check()

# Confirm PaddlePaddle version
python -c "import paddle; print(paddle.__version__)"

Install PaddleGAN

1. Install via PIP (only Python3 is available)

• Install

python3 -m pip install --upgrade ppgan

• Download the examples and configuration files via cloning the source code:

git clone https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleGAN
cd PaddleGAN

2. Install via source code

git clone https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleGAN
cd PaddleGAN

pip install -v -e .  # or "python setup.py develop"

# Install other dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

Other Third-Party Tool Installation

1. ffmpeg

All tasks involving video require ffmpeg to be installed, here we recommend using conda

conda install x264=='1!152.20180717' ffmpeg=4.0.2 -c conda-forge

2. VisualDL

If you want to use PaddlePaddle VisualDL to visualize the training process, Please install VisualDL(For more detail refer here):

python -m pip install visualdl -i https://mirror.baidu.com/pypi/simple

*Note: Only versions installed under Python 3 or higher are maintained by VisualDL officially.