Installing TuriCreate on Apple M1 Silicon machine

[bdolly]

Hi @luisguiserrano,

I recently started reading GML, which is excellent, and wanted to run some of the examples however I am having issues getting them running on a new Macbook Pro with an M1 chip. I am using pyenv, poetry, and a terminal with Rosetta to try and install TuriCreate but am having no luck. Please let me know what other info you need to help with this issue.

[taepyongyang]

The most practical way to run the labs locally on an M-series Mac is to use Docker with --platform=linux/amd64 to simulate an x86_64 environment.

1. Install Docker Desktop.
2. From your lab directory, run:

docker run --platform=linux/amd64 --rm -p 8888:8888 -it --user root -v $(pwd):/home/jovyan/work jupyter/scipy-notebook:python-3.7.12 start.sh jupyter lab

3. Open Terminal within Jupyter, then install pip install turicreate==6.2.2 (the container image from jupyter/scipy-notebook contained most of the other dependencies already)

This ensures compatibility with older Python versions like 3.7 on Apple Silicon.