How to install Baidu's PaddlePaddle on ubuntu 16.04?

Question

I recently wanted to install PaddlePaddle on ubuntu 16, but there's a missing dependency, the package requires libgflags2, I couldn't find this library on Ubuntu's canonical repos, I found libgflags2v5 instead, so I played a little with the paddle's package dependencies and changed "libgflags2" to "libgflags2v5", and the installation was successful, but the package crashes when I use this command

paddle train --help

I later on understood that the package works fine on ubuntu 14.04, but unfortunately I can't degrade to that version and I have to use version 16, so how do I deal with this?

EDIT:
When I run this command

paddle train --help

I get this error

I1014 10:38:32.837656 3658 Util.cpp:151] commandline: /usr/bin/../opt/paddle/bin/paddle_trainer --help
paddle_trainer: Warning: SetUsageMessage() never called
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): std::bad_alloc
* Aborted at 1476434312 (unix time) try "date -d @1476434312" if you are using GNU date
PC: @ 0x7f8e7ed14418 gsignal
SIGABRT (@0x3e800000e4a) received by PID 3658 (TID 0x7f8e80e68740) from PID 3658; stack trace: *
@ 0x7f8e8075e3d0 (unknown)
@ 0x7f8e7ed14418 gsignal
@ 0x7f8e7ed1601a abort
@ 0x7f8e7f65684d __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler()
@ 0x7f8e7f6546b6 (unknown)
@ 0x7f8e7f654701 std::terminate()
@ 0x7f8e7f654919 __cxa_throw
@ 0x7f8e7f654ebc operator new()
@ 0x7f8e7f94ee6d (unknown)
@ 0x7f8e7f94f619 (unknown)
@ 0x7f8e7f94f830 (unknown)
@ 0x7f8e7f95629a google::GetAllFlags()
@ 0x7f8e7f95d707 (unknown)
@ 0x7f8e7f95dda2 google::ShowUsageWithFlagsRestrict()
@ 0x7f8e7f95e56f google::HandleCommandLineHelpFlags()
@ 0x7f8e7f9554db (unknown)
@ 0x74a8f5 paddle::ParseCommandLineFlags()
@ 0x748341 paddle::initMain()
@ 0x509a3b main
@ 0x7f8e7ecff830 __libc_start_main
@ 0x515455 (unknown)
@ 0x0 (unknown) /usr/bin/paddle: line 81: 3658
Aborted (core dumped) ${DEBUGGER} $MYDIR/../opt/paddle/bin/paddle_trainer ${@:2}

Just a quick note: you should explicitly say the full version of Ubuntu (e.g. 14.04 and 16.04); Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 (and so on) are **entirely different releases**, not patches of version 14. — Aurora0001, Oct 13 '16 at 20:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 14 '16 at 09:07

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Out of the box installation, see http://www.paddlepaddle.org/doc/build/

For Ubuntu without GPU:

sudo apt-get install gdebi
wget https://github.com/baidu/Paddle/releases/download/V0.8.0b1/paddle-cpu-0.8.0b1-Linux.deb
gdebi paddle-*.deb
sudo paddle version

Building from source, see http://www.paddlepaddle.org/doc/build/build_from_source.html

edited Oct 14 '16 at 09:07

Kareem

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answered Oct 14 '16 at 06:45

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Still the same problem. – Kareem Oct 14 '16 at 09:23
did you try building from source? – alvas Oct 20 '16 at 10:10
Nope I didn't, I just rolled back to 14.04 :/ – Kareem Oct 22 '16 at 07:18
Compile from source. It should work when you compile from source. There's more steps but it's worth the effort. – alvas Oct 22 '16 at 11:12
Well, I'll give it a try, since I've had a look into the sources. – Kareem Oct 23 '16 at 07:09

How to install Baidu's PaddlePaddle on ubuntu 16.04?

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