Install development versions

Install development versions of Flower

Using Poetry (recommended)

Install a flwr pre-release from PyPI: update the flwr dependency in pyproject.toml and then reinstall (don’t forget to delete poetry.lock (rm poetry.lock) before running poetry install).

• flwr = { version = "1.0.0a0", allow-prereleases = true } (without extras)

• flwr = { version = "1.0.0a0", allow-prereleases = true, extras = ["simulation"] } (with extras)

Install flwr from a local copy of the Flower source code via pyproject.toml:

• flwr = { path = "../../", develop = true } (without extras)

• flwr = { path = "../../", develop = true, extras = ["simulation"] } (with extras)

Install flwr from a local wheel file via pyproject.toml:

• flwr = { path = "../../dist/flwr-1.8.0-py3-none-any.whl" } (without extras)

• flwr = { path = "../../dist/flwr-1.8.0-py3-none-any.whl", extras = ["simulation"] } (with extras)

Please refer to the Poetry documentation for further details: Poetry Dependency Specification

Using pip (recommended on Colab)

Install a flwr pre-release from PyPI:

• pip install -U --pre flwr (without extras)

• pip install -U --pre 'flwr[simulation]' (with extras)

Python packages can be installed from git repositories. Use one of the following commands to install the Flower directly from GitHub.

Install flwr from the default GitHub branch (main):

• pip install flwr@git+https://github.com/adap/flower.git (without extras)

• pip install 'flwr[simulation]@git+https://github.com/adap/flower.git' (with extras)

Install flwr from a specific GitHub branch (branch-name):

• pip install flwr@git+https://github.com/adap/flower.git@branch-name (without extras)

• pip install 'flwr[simulation]@git+https://github.com/adap/flower.git@branch-name' (with extras)

Open Jupyter Notebooks on Google Colab

Open the notebook doc/source/tutorial-series-get-started-with-flower-pytorch.ipynb:

• https://colab.research.google.com/github/adap/flower/blob/main/doc/source/tutorial-series-get-started-with-flower-pytorch.ipynb

Open a development version of the same notebook from branch branch-name by changing main to branch-name (right after blob):

• https://colab.research.google.com/github/adap/flower/blob/branch-name/doc/source/tutorial-series-get-started-with-flower-pytorch.ipynb

Install a whl on Google Colab:

1. In the vertical icon grid on the left hand side, select Files > Upload to session storage

2. Upload the whl (e.g., flwr-1.8.0-py3-none-any.whl)

3. Change !pip install -q 'flwr[simulation]' torch torchvision matplotlib to !pip install -q 'flwr-1.8.0-py3-none-any.whl[simulation]' torch torchvision matplotlib