Setup Linux Binary Manual
Linux binary manual installation
This page will walk you through the process of installing the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) based on a binary distribution we have prepared and you can download from our website.
Note: You can find an overview about all the available installation options for CNTK on this page.
We will install the CNTK binaries, the CNTK prerequisites, and create (or update) a Python 2.7, 3.5, or 3.6 environment on your computer. The changes are as much localized as possible to not impact any other installed software.
Note
If you previously installed an earlier version of the CNTK Python package, you can skip steps 1 through 3 below and directly jump to step 4 to update your existing CNTK package installation from your Python 2.7, 3.5, or 3.6 environment.
Step 1: Download and install prerequisites
Docker users please follow the instructions here. Others please continue reading.
CNTK V2 on Linux requires the following prerequisites to be installed from the links below:
Important
We strongly recommend to follow the Open MPI installation procedure described by the link above.
- For GPU systems ensure that you have the latest NVIDIA driver
- Download the required binary package from CNTK Releases page and extract it to your machine.
Step 2: CNTK setup for Python
- Please follow these instructions to set up CNTK for Python on your machine.