XGBoost with GPU support installation error: can't copy 'xgboost\lib': doesn't exist or not a regular file

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Answer 1

Edit xgboost/python-package/setup.py and change line 38 to the following (source) :

include_package_data=False

Now it should install without any problems. To see that it's all working fine, just run the following command, and if it runs without errors it's good to go:

python -c "import xgboost"

You can run additional tests after installation using the nose package with the following command executed from the root xgboost/ directory:

nosetests tests/python

To further confirm that it installed with GPU support, you can use the benchmarking scripts that come included with the installation:

gpu_hist algorithm:

python tests/benchmark/benchmark_tree.py

Output:

Train Time: 46.25219774246216 seconds

hist algorithm without GPU:

python tests/benchmark/benchmark_tree.py --tree_method hist

Output:

Train Time: 84.04853415489197 seconds