Installing Gensim on Windows.

[Nigel Legg]

Hi all.  I have python with nltk installed on my Windows 7 desktop machine, and now want to install genSim to do some topic modelling.
However I'm stuck with this, the documentation does not really help for windows. 
Any tips?
Regards, Nigel.

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[Radim Řehůřek]

Nigel,

where are you stuck?

For windows, the documentation recommends installing Enthought first:
http://radimrehurek.com/gensim/install.html

Then run `easy_install gensim` from command line, or unpack the source
and run `python setup.py install`

Best,
Radim

[Nigel Legg]

I've done that, but it's bombing out at the ATLAS / Blas step. Do I need to install all of this, or are there parts I can leave out?
Thanks, Nigel.

[Radim Řehůřek]

On Mar 22, 7:53 am, Nigel Legg <nigel.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've done that, but it's bombing out at the ATLAS / Blas step. Do I need to
> install all of this, or are there parts I can leave out?
> Thanks, Nigel.

You mean installing Enthought fails? Then drop them a note -- they're
a commercial company, I'm sure they'll be grateful for bug reports and
offer you support.

For gensim, you don't need to install anything apart from Python,
NumPy and SciPy -- for Windows, all 3 are conveniently bundled in
Enthought, which is why I recommend it.

Best,
Radim

[Nigel Legg]

I haven't tried enthought because I already have Python and Numpy (beebn using nltk for a while). I thought it was bombing at the ATLAS step, realised this is optional (right?) and tried trunning gensim - it did not load because the install had not installed scipy for some reason.  Installed that, decided to forget about ATLAS, and I can use it now.  Will be trying LDA, LSI, and HDP over the next few days on the same data set.
Thanks for taking the time,
Cheers, N.

[Jurica Seva]

EPD is available for Linux as well under the academic license.

What worked for me (working from the command line; i have a comman-line VM with ubuntu, no GUI): 

1. Installed EPD free; i used links to go to epd's home page and then downloaded epd_free-7.3-2-rh5-x86_64.sh

2. changed .bashrc (from ~ directory)with vim and added export PATH=/home/jseva/epd_free-7.3-2-rh5-x86_64/bin:$PATH where /home/jseva/epd_free-7.3-2-rh5-x86_64 is the location where I installed EPD

3. run  enpkg --userpass and login with my EPD account

4. enpkg epd upgrades from free to academic

After upgared, when i run python i get

Enthought Python Distribution -- www.enthought.com

Version: 7.3-2 (64-bit)

Python 2.7.3 |EPD 7.3-2 (64-bit)| (default, Apr 11 2012, 17:52:16)

[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)] on linux2

Type "credits", "demo" or "enthought" for more information.

Runing easy_install gensim gives

Installed /home/jseva/epd_free-7.3-2-rh5-x86_64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gensim-0.8.6-py2.7.egg

and in this manner you can install all python packages you need; it will use the edp version, not the default one. 

Hope this helps someone. I lost 3 weeks trying to figure out how to set up OpenBLAS and then ATLAS and reinstalled my VM 2 times... And lost faith in google :D 

Best,

Jurica.

[Mihai Szekely]

You wouldn't believe the trouble i've been to get it to work on windows (XPsp3)
From manually installing easy_install, numpy, scipy (thorugh an unofficial installer because of some blas library error) and only after gensim, it was painfully. Because Enthought didn help at all :( On ubuntu it was piece of cake :D

[Reshma Okkath Kavil]

I've installed python 2.7 numpy and scipy in windows. Now inorder to install gensim, when i run setup.py

python setup.py, i get the following errors.

Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-1.3.2.tar.gz

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "G:\gensim-0.9.0.tar\dist\gensim-0.9.0\setup.py", line 20, in <module>

    ez_setup.use_setuptools()

  File "G:\gensim-0.9.0.tar\dist\gensim-0.9.0\ez_setup.py", line 132, in use_setuptools

    return _do_download(version, download_base, to_dir, download_delay)

  File "G:\gensim-0.9.0.tar\dist\gensim-0.9.0\ez_setup.py", line 110, in _do_download

    to_dir, download_delay)

  File "G:\gensim-0.9.0.tar\dist\gensim-0.9.0\ez_setup.py", line 290, in download_setuptools

    downloader(url, saveto)

  File "G:\gensim-0.9.0.tar\dist\gensim-0.9.0\ez_setup.py", line 197, in download_file_curl

    _clean_check(cmd, target)

  File "G:\gensim-0.9.0.tar\dist\gensim-0.9.0\ez_setup.py", line 160, in _clean_check

    subprocess.check_call(cmd)

  File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 511, in check_call

    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)

CalledProcessError: Command '['curl', 'https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-1.3.2.tar.gz', '--silent', '--output', 'G:\\gensim-0.9.0.tar\\dist\\gensim-0.9.0\\setuptools-1.3.2.tar.gz']' returned non-zero exit status 60

What do i need to do inorder to install Gensim successfully in windows ? 

Please help me.

[janre...@gmail.com]

Looks like something went wrong when gensim tried to download the setuptools package.
You could try installing setuptools manually. Download the setuptools.tar.gz, extract it, open a command window and change directory to the extracted folder, then run

python setup.py install

Then follow the same procedure with the gensim.tar.gz.

[Radim Řehůřek]

Hello,

this is not connected to gensim -- ez_setup.py (the "setuptools bootstrap script") tried to download setuptools with curl, and found some SSL certificate was invalid (=error code 60).

Not sure how that comes about, but like Jan says, you can download and install setuptools manually.

Once you have that, you can use "easy_install" command to install Python packages (including gensim), no need to download/unzip sources manually.

HTH,

Radim

[Reshma Okkath Kavil]

Hi Jan and Radim,

Thankyou for replying.

I had tried that, but did not install setuptools. Now when i tried installing setuptools [using python setup.py install], gensim installation is also working fine.

Thanks a lot.

Regards,

Reshma