Gensim Install - Shell/Bash

Gensim is a flexible, efficient, and scalable library for topic modelling, document similarity, and text processing. In this guide, we will walk through the process of installing Gensim using shell/bash commands.

Prerequisites

Before installing Gensim, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed:

• Python 2.7, 3.4 or higher
• NumPy 1.8.2 or later
• SciPy 0.13.3 or later
• Six 1.5.0 or later

You can install the above dependencies using the package manager of your operating system, or by using pip, the package installer for Python. Here's an example command to install NumPy:

pip install numpy

Installing Gensim using pip

Once you have installed the prerequisites, you can install Gensim using pip, the Python package installer. Here's the command to install Gensim using pip:

pip install --upgrade gensim

If you want to use Gensim with additional dependencies, you can install them using pip as well. For example, the following command installs Gensim with support for matplotlib, the Python plotting library:

pip install --upgrade gensim[matplotlib]

Verifying the installation

To verify that Gensim has been installed correctly, you can run the following Python code in a Python shell:

import gensim

print(gensim.__version__)

This should print the version number of the installed Gensim library.

Conclusion

In this guide, we have walked through the process of installing Gensim using shell/bash commands. We have also shown how to install Gensim with additional dependencies and how to verify the installation. With Gensim installed, you can start using it to perform topic modelling, document similarity, and text processing tasks in your Python projects.