Unable to install "Turicreate" on my Windows 10
I am new to Python and I am trying to build a recommendation engine by following a tutorial. The tutorials asks me to install turicreate, I am running Spyder 3.3.0 (Python version 3.5) on Anaconda.
WHAT I TRIED - I sought help from various SO questions as well as github, but none helped. I tried using "pip" and it gave the following error-
Failed building wheel for turicreate Running setup.py clean for turicreate Failed to build turicreate
Tried "conda install ", but error again.
Solving environment: failed PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:- turicreate
My "pip" and "conda" and "anaconda" are up to date. I tried creating a virtual environment and then installing "turicreate", but didn't help. I visited the anaconda.org website which had "conda install -c derickl turicreate", I tried, which gave the following error.
PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:- turicreate
Any help would be much appreciated.
Answer
If you go to the page of the turicreate package on the Python repository index (PyPI), you will find that it can only be installed natively on Linux and macOS.
The only way to use it on Windows is through the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and for that you need to install Anaconda or Python on it (I think, I've never used WSL).