Hi all. Because Rasa uses Tensorflow we’ve been experiencing some pip-related hardship getting installations to work on the new apple M1 macbooks. I think we’ve found a temporary workaround for the situation, but it’s important to emphesize that this workaround is very much temporary. Hopefully, these steps won’t be needed in the future when the Tensorflow/pip incompatibilities are adressed. An unofficial guide to getting Rasa to work on a M1 Macbook. What follows below is a step-by-step guide that explains how I got Rasa to work on a M1 Macbook Air. These steps seem to work on MacOS Montery v12.0.1. If you use an ealier version of the operating system you’ll likely need to upgrade. This guide was written on Feb 14th 2021. While we might try to keep this thread up-to-date, it is likely that things might change depending on the Tensorflow support for these devices. Step One: System Dependencies First, you’ll want to install some base dependencies for your operating system. We will use brew for this. If you don’t have brew installed you can do so by running: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" The script explains what it will do and then pauses before it does it. Once brew is installed you can install the required system dependencies. brew install libpq libxml2 libxmlsec1 pkg-config postgresql Step Two: Conda Next, we will install conda to deal with our dependencies. We will follow the steps that are described here as a reference. You can install conda by downloading this file and running it locally via; chmod +x ~/Downloads/Miniforge3-MacOSX-arm64.sh sh ~/Downloads/Miniforge3-MacOSX-arm64.sh source ~/miniforge3/bin/activate This will activate an environment that is maintained by conda. That means that conda is able to handle our Tensorflow dependencies from here on. Conda does not work with requirements.txt files that you may be familiar with from pip. Instead we will use a env.yml file. Here’s the one that will use: channels: - apple - conda-forge dependencies: - python==3.8.12 - dask==2021.11.2 - tensorflow-deps==2.6.0 - numpy>=1.19.2,<1.20.0 - scipy>=1.4.1,<1.8.0 - scikit-learn>=0.22,<0.25 - matplotlib==3.5.1 - pip - pip: - absl-py==0.13.0 - aio-pika==6.8.1 - aiofiles==0.8.0 - aioredis==2.0.1 - aioresponses==0.7.2 - aiormq==3.3.1 - anyio==3.4.0 - APScheduler==3.7.0 - async-generator==1.10 - async-timeout==4.0.2 - aiohttp==3.8.1 - httpcore==0.11.1 - httplib2==0.20.2 - httptools==0.3.0 - httpx==0.15.4 - bidict==0.21.4 - blinker==1.4 - boto3==1.20.28 - botocore==1.23.28 - CacheControl==0.12.10 - cachy==0.3.0 - certifi==2021.10.8 - chardet==4.0.0 - clang==5.0 - cleo==0.8.1 - clikit==0.6.2 - colorama==0.4.4 - colorclass==2.2.2 - coloredlogs==15.0.1 - colorhash==1.0.4 - cra…

An Unofficial Guide to Installing Rasa on an M1 Macbook

aaronbriel (Aaron Briel) March 9, 2022, 1:45pm 8

ConveRTFeaturizer is indeed used in the pipeline.

Viable alternative to ConveRTFeaturizer for DietClassifier

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