Starnet for OSX 10.11

[Red Chilli]

I'm looking Starnet++ for El Capitan, but on ofiicial website is only from 10.12 and above. Where I can find older version?

[JamesF]

I'm not certain, but it looks as though it may well "just work" if you can find a suitable version of python for El Capitan and then follow the instructions on the github page for the project.

James

[BCN_Sean]

I don't think it'd run on 10.11, as libtensorflow (one of the dependencies of StarNet) looks for something in the operating system that wasn't introduced until Sierra.

[JamesF]

15 minutes ago, BCN_Sean said:

I don't think it'd run on 10.11, as libtensorflow (one of the dependencies of StarNet) looks for something in the operating system that wasn't introduced until Sierra.

Ah, yes, that looks like it is the reason.  There are a few more details here:

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/24642

It looks like a workaround is possible if you build the tensorflow stuff yourself.  Or possibly it can be installed from MacPorts.  It appears that v1.15 is available for Snow Leopard from MacPorts, so perhaps it will also be available for 10.11?

James

[Red Chilli]

Thanks James. Looks promising. If not, then I'll try to upgrade my mac to Sierra.

[BCN_Sean]

I think the highest version of tensorflow you would be able to use on 10.11 is version 1.9.0

Before you dig in installing tensorflow, though, it may be worth looking at what version of Python is required as it was 2.7 on 10.11 (originally, unless you've updated) as the original building of StarNet was under Python 3.6

If you've got Python3 in there, pulling tensorflow in to the system shouldn't be more difficult than installing it through python (pip) itself.

If you've got a machine with a standalone graphics processor, tensorflow may be able to leverage that, but if not or unsure then it'd be best to build for CPU only.

Command line (Terminal) time : 

Tensorflow without GPU :

pip3 install tensorflow==1.9.0

Tensorflow with GPU support:

pip3 install tensorflow-gpu==1.9.0