Tag / MacOS

by Thomas

Can’t install PyTorch on my Macbook

To my surprise, I wasn’t able to install Pytorch for a project on my Macbook Pro M1 today (MacOS Sequoia 15.2). I kept getting this error when running pip3 install -r requirements.txt:

ERROR: Ignored the following versions that require a different python version: 1.21.2 Requires-Python >=3.7,<3.11; 1.21.3 Requires-Python >=3.7,<3.11; 1.21.4 Requires-Python >=3.7,<3.11; 1.21.5 Requires-Python >=3.7,<3.11; 1.21.6 Requires-Python >=3.7,<3.11; 1.26.0 Requires-Python <3.13,>=3.9; 1.26.1 Requires-Python <3.13,>=3.9
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement torch==2.7.0.dev20250116 (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for torch==2.7.0.dev20250116

I tried it manually: pip3 install torch, no luck:

pip install torch
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://pypi.ngc.nvidia.com
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement torch (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for torch

Solution

This is what I came up with and it works fine:

pip3 install --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cpu

by Thomas

root symlink on MacOS BigSur

After upgrading my Macbook to BigSur (I skipped Catalina) my MongoDB didn’t want to start anymore. A quick inspection showed that the /data/db folder I used to have to house my db files didn’t exist anymore. BigSur has removed it 😱 but luckily I found a backup.

It appears that the root / folder on MacOS is now readonly, and I wasn’t able to copy the backup to its original place. I chose the Mac disk instead, and it now sits in /System/Volumes/Data/data

What was left is to create a symlink to /data, and the way to do that is by using the /etc/synthetic.conf file:

data    /System/Volumes/Data/data

This fixes the /data folder I used to have for MongoDB.