INSTALL.md

INSTALL

To install Merlin, cd merlin and run the below steps:

• Install some basic tools in Merlin

bash tools/compile_tools.sh

• Install python dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

More advanced instructions

1. go to tools/ and follow INSTALL instructions there.
2. Merlin is coded in python and need third-party python libraries such as:

numpy, scipy, matplotlib, lxml

• Usually shipped with your python packages
• Available in Ubuntu packages

theano

• Can be found on pip
• Need version 0.7 and above
• http://deeplearning.net/software/theano

bandmat

• Can be found on pip
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bandmat

For running on NVIDIA GPU, you will need also CUDA

• https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zone

and you might want also CUDNN [optionnal]

• https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn

Computational efficiency

• Computationnal efficiency is obviously greatly improved using GPU.
• It is also improved using the latest versions of theano and numpy.

Some Linux Instructions

For Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy python-dev python-pip python-nose g++ libopenblas-dev git libc6-dev-i386 glibc-devel.i686 csh

For Fedora:

sudo yum install python-numpy python-scipy python-dev python-pip python-nose g++ libopenblas-dev git libc6-dev-i386 glibc-devel.i686 csh python-lxml libxslt-devel unzip

Common libraries for both Ubuntu and Fedora:

sudo env "PATH=$PATH" pip install Theano
sudo env "PATH=$PATH" pip install matplotlib
sudo env "PATH=$PATH" pip install bandmat
sudo env "PATH=$PATH" pip install lxml

For all stand-alone machines:

• If you are not a sudo user, this post may help you install Merlin.