can't pip install on Apple Silicon

[jtauber]

This may be an upstream Tensorflow issue but it doesn't appear to be possible to install bookNLP on Apple Silicon.

I'll continue to investigate but wanted to create this issue here to track and also get input from others who have encountered this.

[jtauber]

Okay, the workaround seemed to be pretty straightforward but is probably worth sharing:

I installed the dependencies individually, replacing tensorflow with tensorflow-macos and then used pip install --no-dependencies booknlp and it worked.

[DrewThomasson]

does pip install tensorflow-metal also work?

hoping that can give it the neural chip speed up of the apple silicone chip

[DrewThomasson]

I updated the instruction cause the transformers version doesn't work.

pip install tensorflow-macos
pip install torch
pip install spacy
pip install transformers==4.30.0
pip install --no-dependencies booknlp

and it should run on the cpu at least, it works for me

update:

installing pip install tensorflow-metal doesn't seem to effect what it runs on my end, it still runs own the CPU but ey it works!`

[DrewThomasson]

case no one else I made a booknlp pip install specifically for apple silicone!
No npu or gpu speedup tho :(

pip install apple-silicon-booknlp

just make sure its in a python 3.10 env or the transformers wheel won't do its thing