Is there any plan on making the installation possible with pip?

guin0x · February 17, 2023, 4:12pm

The question is simple. Just curious to know why when I try to install with pip I get the following error:
InvalidVersion: Invalid version: '0.1.43ubuntu1' (package: python-debian)

vishalthatsme · April 28, 2023, 5:21pm

Bringing this back up. Would love a pip installation for latest version.

rosgori · April 30, 2023, 6:17pm

Wait, what? You can install pymc with pip. What problems do you have with the installation?

vishalthatsme · April 30, 2023, 6:43pm

Back when v4 came out there was lots of discussion on why devs could only get it to work with conda. Official documentation only shows installation steps for conda. I’ve tried it with pip recently and get various errors

cluhmann · April 30, 2023, 8:52pm

My understanding is that installing PyMC via pip is fine. If you do, however, installing all the various pieces of the C backend that PyTensor relies on (for fast sampling) ends up being your responsibility (and installing C compilers and associated tooling is a very platform-/hardware-specific operation). Conda-forge has pre-compiled packages for these components (for various platforms, easing the the creation of functional (i.e., fast) PyMC environments.