Trouble installing on Mac OS X 10.13.6

[Rad-dude]

Hi Fabian,

I was having trouble installing HD_BET. I'm on Mac OS X 10.13.6 ( this comes with a system python 2.7 ) so to setup with python 3 & pip3, I had to do so with conda virtual environment.

I used the "sudo -H install -e ." as when I ran the install command without the "sudo -H" I got the following warning: (Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable), and for some reason after the install, I simply couldn't find hd-bet or HD_BET on my path at all.

After a few attempts, I got it to work. Long story short, for Mac OS X, users will need a conda virtual environment with python3 and pip3 activated, then using "sudo -H pip install -e ." everything should be fine.

If the user attempts to install with "pip install -e ." or "pip install -e . --user", it still won't work. Also make sure to remove the previous attempts to install before going for the "sudo -H pip install -e ."

I thought this would be worth sharing for other Mac OS X users, although it is no longer an issue for me.

Thanks and best regards, AR

[FabianIsensee]

Hi there, thank you for sharing. I will update the Documentation accordingly soon. Best, Fabian

[johnaeanderson]

Hi Fabian,

Any chance those of us with macs could use opencl instead of cuda to accelerate the estimates?

thanks for the software!

[FabianIsensee]

Hi John, unfortunately this is not something that can be done easily, as it would require pytorch (which is the framework we use for GPU acceleration) to support opencl. I know that there is a branch for ROCm support (which is AMD's implementation of GPU acceleration) somewhere, but getting this to run will certainly be a lot of headaches (I tried just for fun a while ago). Best, Fabian

[FabianIsensee]

Thanks @m416kar98k