Installation error

[almog2065]

While trying to run the training file, I did all the installations the required, except the last one of pip install -r requirements.txt.
I opened the txt file and saw that the installation of
git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
is the problematic one.
The error seems to be related to the pyproject.toml configuration in the repository.
I add the last part of the error:

File "/tmp/pip-build-env-m2ci3qq4/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 355, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=['wheel'])
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-m2ci3qq4/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 325, in _get_build_requires
self.run_setup()
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-m2ci3qq4/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 507, in run_setup
super(_BuildMetaLegacyBackend, self).run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-m2ci3qq4/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 341, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
File "", line 32, in
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-m2ci3qq4/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/init.py", line 107, in setup
return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-m2ci3qq4/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 159, in setup
dist.parse_config_files()
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-m2ci3qq4/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 899, in parse_config_files
pyprojecttoml.apply_configuration(self, filename, ignore_option_errors)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-m2ci3qq4/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/config/pyprojecttoml.py", line 66, in apply_configuration
config = read_configuration(filepath, True, ignore_option_errors, dist)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-m2ci3qq4/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/config/pyprojecttoml.py", line 127, in read_configuration
validate(subset, filepath)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-m2ci3qq4/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/config/pyprojecttoml.py", line 55, in validate
raise ValueError(f"{error}\n{summary}") from None
ValueError: invalid pyproject.toml config: project.
configuration error: project must contain ['version'] properties
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

[adamjsanders277]

Hello, thanks for reaching out with this issue.

I have had a look and it seems the examples-utils package is only used for testing so you may have success by ignoring that package altogether. If you find you do require it perhaps you could try installing the latest release of examples-utils: pip install 'examples-utils[benchmark] @ git+https://github.com/graphcore/[email protected]'

Also its worth noting that this model is built to be run on Graphcore IPUs which you can access on Paperspace. This will create your environment for you and hopefully means that you won’t see this issue. You can follow this link to start this application in Paperspace if you wish to run it this way: https://ipu.dev/3CGjC5E.