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Anonymouse
Anonymouse

Reputation: 1

Installing ta-lib into specific directory in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux):

I have a windows installation and plan to run GPU-accelerated code with RAPIDS 24.12, enabling me to handle dataframes with dask-cudf. RAPIDS Installation with Conda successful, test code works as it should.

Now I would like to install a specific python library: ta-lib, to the venv.

Procedure: (and no, I can’t use pip or conda because, loads of reasons and my grampa has a toothache… I have to build it from source. Moving on...:)

Prep: create venv with : python3 -m venv <myenvpath> as usual

  1. login to venv: Correct syntax to activate venv in ubuntu shell:
    <<<< source ~/miniforge3/envs/rapids-24.12/bin/activate >>>>>>>>>

  2. Download the library at: https://github.com/TA-Lib/ta-lib/archive/refs/tags/v0.6.4.tar.gz

  3. Gently place the library in /home/<username>/miniforge3/envs/rapids-24.12. If it squeaks, slap it and do it again.

  4. extract the tarball

    tar -xzf ta-lib-0.6.4-src.tar.gz

  5. cd to the resulting dir

    cd ta-lib-0.6.4

  6. run install script:

Now, first:

`./configure
make
sudo make install`

.....will install the library to a default directory, and not the dir where my venv is housed. I tried that: ta-lib doesn't show up when i run pip list

Also tried installing ta-lib into other dir than usr/local:

cd to: cd ~/miniforge3/envs/rapids-24.12/ta-lib-0.6.4

then run:

./configure --prefix=/home/<username>/miniforge3/envs/rapids-24.12
make
sudo make install

This makes the installation proceed normally and everything works, as far as I can see from shell output, but when I run pip list, ta-lib is nowhere to be seen.

All of this SUDO wrestling has made me tired and SUDO is winning? I’m all out of ideas. How do I proceeed with this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (1)

James Lamb
James Lamb

Reputation: 2732

I would like to install a specific python library: ta-lib, to the venv

ta-lib doesn't show up when I run pip list

The approach you took downloading the source of https://github.com/TA-Lib/ta-lib and running make install builds the Ta-Lib C library.

pip list only knows about packages installed with pip and similar tools.

Since it appears that you're using conda, you can use the published releases on conda-forge to get the Python package.

conda install \
  -c conda-forge \
  --name rapids-24.12 \
  ta-lib

That package contains built versions of https://github.com/TA-Lib/ta-lib-python, created from https://github.com/conda-forge/ta-lib-feedstock.

Alternatively, you could:

Upvotes: 1

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