# Installation

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Not all hardware/OS combinations are supported. Determine your platform, OS version, and Python version before referencing the table below.
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Depending on your OS, Concrete ML may be installed with Docker or with pip:

|                 OS / HW                 | Available on Docker | Available on pip |
| :-------------------------------------: | :-----------------: | :--------------: |
|                  Linux                  |         Yes         |        Yes       |
|                 Windows                 |         Yes         |   Not currently  |
|       Windows Subsystem for Linux       |         Yes         |        Yes       |
|            macOS 11+ (Intel)            |         Yes         |        Yes       |
| macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon: M1, M2, etc.) |         Yes         |        Yes       |

Only some versions of `python` are supported: In the current release, these are `3.8`, `3.9` and `3.10`. The Concrete ML Python package requires `glibc >= 2.28`. On Linux, you can check your `glibc` version by running `ldd --version`.

Concrete ML can be installed on Kaggle ([see question on community for more details](https://community.zama.ai/t/how-do-we-use-concrete-ml-on-kaggle/332)) and on Google Colab.

Most of these limits are shared with the rest of the Concrete stack (namely Concrete-Python). Support for more platforms will be added in the future.

## Using PyPi

### Requirements

Installing Concrete ML using PyPi requires a Linux-based OS or macOS running on an x86 CPU. For Apple Silicon, Docker is the only currently supported option (see [below](#using-docker)).

Installing on Windows can be done using Docker or WSL. On WSL, Concrete ML will work as long as the package is not installed in the /mnt/c/ directory, which corresponds to the host OS filesystem.

### Installation

To install Concrete ML from PyPi, run the following:

```shell
pip install -U pip wheel setuptools
pip install concrete-ml
```

This will automatically install all dependencies, notably Concrete.

## Using Docker

Concrete ML can be installed using Docker by either pulling the latest image or a specific version:

```shell
docker pull zamafhe/concrete-ml:latest
# or
docker pull zamafhe/concrete-ml:v0.4.0
```

The image can be used with Docker volumes, [see the Docker documentation here](https://docs.docker.com/storage/volumes/).

The image can then be used via the following command:

```shell
# Without local volume:
docker run --rm -it -p 8888:8888 zamafhe/concrete-ml

# With local volume to save notebooks on host:
docker run --rm -it -p 8888:8888 -v /host/path:/data zamafhe/concrete-ml
```

This will launch a Concrete ML enabled Jupyter server in Docker that can be accessed directly from a browser.

Alternatively, a shell can be lauched in Docker, with or without volumes:

```shell
docker run --rm -it zamafhe/concrete-ml /bin/bash
```


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