Installing xgboost on an AWS EC2 Linux instance

Install Python3 and create a virtual environment:

• yes | sudo yum install python36
• python3 -m venv env
• source env/bin/activate

Add the virtual environment to the python path:

• export PYTHONPATH="/home/ec2-user/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/"

Then install git and gcc:

• yes | sudo yum install git
• yes | sudo yum install gcc-c++

Installing xgboost from source:

• git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost.git
• cd xgboost
• make
• cd python-package
• python setup.py install --user

Inside a python REPL:

• import xgboost as xgb

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