Note: This guide assumes you have a NVIDIA GPU installed on your PC. Also I am running Manjaro Linux and running the latest Nvidia Drivers.(The following steps should works on any distro but make sure you installed nvidia’s newest proprietary drivers to avoid cuda realted errors)

The Guides online are riddled with excessive steps or break everything entirely. So decided write on my own :p

##Steps

1) Download Anaconda

bash "path to anaconda script".sh
source ~/.bashrc
conda config --set auto_activate_base false

2)Create a dedicated environment for fastai do this by running

conda create -n fastai
conda activate fastai

3)Setup some conda stuff in the new env (don’t know why it doesn’t do them automatically, maybe someone can tell me why?)

conda install conda
conda install anaconda
conda install python

4)Install pip

conda install pip

5)Install fastai from pip

pip install fastai

And success!

##Warnings and Mistakes I made

conda install -c fastai fastai

Using conda to install fastai and pytorch always resulted in me getting the error “no module fastai” in the notebook, when I try to import the module. Hence I used pip to install fastai, which automatically installs pytorch and cudatoolkit.