Installation on MacOs 11.6.1 fails

[vecorro]

Installation on MacOs 11.6.1 fails

[cpwhidden]

I had this same issue on macOS 11.4. The core issue is that pybullet version 2.8.4 installation fails. Direct installation via pip install pybullet==2.8.4 also fails.

I had to update the pybullet version to 2.9.0 in environment.yml in order for installation to succeed.
After installing this way and running pytest, all tests succeed except for all tests in the test/spec/test_dist_spec.py, but I think those failures are a separate issue (lots of FileNotFoundError errors which probably requires some other setup).

Running python run_lab.py slm_lab/spec/demo.json dqn_cartpole dev succeeds for me now. There doesn't appear to be any problems, but I'm just getting started with the book, so not sure if upgrading pybullet will affect anything else.

[vecorro]

Thanks, @cpwhidden! Looks like we are hitting the same issue. I see too many errors in the Mac installation process so I decided that it'd be very time-consuming to make SLM-lab work on a recent macOS version. I just created a VM with Ubuntu 20.04 and the installation process there was relatively smooth. I think that one thing that the SLM developers might want to consider is to release it in the form of a Docker image so people can run it on any platform and get straight into experimentation. This could also be a solution for people using Windows.