Local installation: quickstart 2020

We don't want Python 2, and people have reported problems with Python 3.7 or later. So we currently use Python 3.6.

Miniconda instructions:

• Go to the Miniconda archive
• Download Miniconda3-4.5.4 in the right system for you.
• In your command line prompt, go to the directory holding the file
• Run the script: ./Miniconda3-4.5.4-Linux-x86_64.sh (or equivalent)

This will by default add the Miniconda directory to your path. Now you can check you have Python 3.6 installed and available:

• python3 -i
• This should show you Python 3.6.5 | Anaconda Inc.
• Use quit() to get out of the python shell

Get Dingocar

Go to which directory you like to keep your coding projects in.

• git clone https://github.com/tall-josh/dingocar.git
• cd dingocar
• git checkout master

Install Tensorflow for machine learning

• Ubuntu
  • apt-get install -y virtualenv # Note: You may be using a different software installer
  • mkvirtualenv donkeycar -p python3
  • pip install tensorflow==1.8.0 # Note: Probably requires Python 3.5 or 3.6. People are having problems with Python 3.7

(if you get errors, you can try (re-) installing pip: python -m pip install --upgrade pip )

• Debian, if virtualenv isn't there, try this instead
  • virtualenv donkeycar -p python3
  • cd donkeycar
  • export PATH=`pwd`/bin:$PATH
  • pip install tensorflow==1.8.0

(This seems to be v2, but 2019 instructions use 1.8?)

• conda install tensorflow-cpu

Install Dingocar

• pip install -e ./dingocar

Create an instance for your specific car

• donkey createcar --path ~/mycar #give your car its own unique name here!