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Installation

There are two ways to get started:

Pip​

superduper is available on PyPi.org.

Prerequisites​

Before you begin the installation process, please make sure you have the following prerequisites in place:

Operating System​

superduper is compatible with several Linux distributions, including:

  • MacOS
  • Ubuntu
  • Debian

Python Ecosystem​

If you plan to install superduper from source, you'll need the following:

  • python3.10 or python3.11
  • pip 22.0.4 or later

Your experience with superduper on Linux may vary depending on your system and compute requirements.

Installation​

To install superduper on your system using pip, open your terminal and run the following command:

pip install superduper-framework

This command will install superduper along with a minimal set of common dependencies required for running the framework. If you would like to use the superduper.ext subpackages (e.g. superduper.ext.openai), you may build a requirements file with this command:

python3 -m superduper requirements <list-of-extensions> > requirements.txt

For example, this builds a requirements.txt file for openai and torch:

python3 -m superduper requirements openai torch > requirements.txt

Docker Image​

Using Pre-built Images​

If you prefer using Docker, you can pull a pre-built Docker image from Docker Hub and run it with Docker version 19.03 or later:

docker run -p 8888:8888 superduperio/superduper:latest

This command installs the base superduper image. If you want to run the ready-to-use examples, you'll need to download the required dependencies at runtime.

Building the image yourself​

For more control, you can build the Docker images yourself from the latest GitHub version as follows:

Clone the code:

git clone --branch main --single-branch --depth 1 https://github.com/superduper/superduper.git
make build_superduper

Developer's docker image and environment​

If you wish to use your local copy of code with a docker build, execute the following command:

make build_sandbox

You will see something like these lines in docker images:

REPOSITORY                    TAG             IMAGE ID       CREATED        SIZE
superduperio/sandbox          latest          88ddab334d17   5 days ago     2.69GB