topic Re: How do I Install python packages on SAS Viya4 in Administration and Deployment

How do I Install python packages on SAS Viya4

Seetha1 — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 09:43:57 GMT

Hi,

Can anybody help me with the procedure to install python packages in SAS Viya4?

I want to use packages like tabula, PyPDF2 to extract information from PDF. But, these packages are not inbuilt in python. So, I have to install these packages manually. But, I don't know how to install it on python that is integrated on SAS VIYA 4. We have python version 3.8 on SAS Viya4

Thanks in advance for the help

Re: How do I Install python packages on SAS Viya4

JosvanderVelden — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:07:54 GMT

Did you do the installation?
If yes, have you installed python and swat?

Re: How do I Install python packages on SAS Viya4

Seetha1 — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 04:42:50 GMT

No, we haven't installed SWAT. But Python is installed.

Re: How do I Install python packages on SAS Viya4

JosvanderVelden — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:23:30 GMT

Do you have access to the Command-Line-Interface (CLI)? For some background see:
https://developer.sas.com/guides/python-swat.html ;
https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/sasadmincdc/v_049/calcli/titlepage.htm ;
https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2020/06/19/getting-started-with-python-integration-to-sas-viya-index/

Re: How do I Install python packages on SAS Viya4

Seetha1 — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 12:37:11 GMT

We have followed this link to configure python in SAS Viya4 environment.

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/Configuring-SAS-Viya-for-Python-Integration/ta-p/847459

Now, we want to know how we can install additional python packages like - tabula and pypdf2. We need this in order to process pdf files.

Please find the screen shots of the packages that we have installed in the attached file and please guide us how we can install the above mentioned packages.

Re: How do I Install python packages on SAS Viya4

jacksmith1 — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:28:07 GMT

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Re: How do I Install python packages on SAS Viya4

JosvanderVelden — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 11:57:43 GMT

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Re: How do I Install python packages on SAS Viya4

Seetha1 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 05:47:54 GMT

Hi,

I didn't get a solution to install the python packages- tabula and pypdf2. Please help me with a solution

Re: How do I Install python packages on SAS Viya4

sbxkoenk — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 16:30:35 GMT

@WouterVdW ... can you help?

Koen

Re: How do I Install python packages on SAS Viya4

SASKiwi — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 23:13:05 GMT

I'd suggest opening a Tech Support track for this is your best option if you haven't already. I'm also moving this post to the Administration category for better visibility.

Re: How do I Install python packages on SAS Viya4

JuanS_OCS — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 11:06:04 GMT

Since SAS Viya 4 comes in the shape of container images, they are not supposed to be modified.

The best option is to configure your SAS Viya 4 Python installation to point to a shared location on your Persistent Volume(s), where your modules will be installed and collected/pointed from the Python installation. If you manage to do this, you are good to go.

Else and technically speaking, you can modify the SAS images before deployed, but mind that, as soon as you, your SAS installation will not officially/fully supported anymore. Hence the reason why, while technically you can do this, it is not a healthy alternative. This is just one of the reasons. Another reason is the fact that, for every maintenance/update of SAS Viya, you would need to take the same steps to modify the image.

Re: How do I Install python packages on SAS Viya4

WouterVdW — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 10:41:51 GMT

Hi @sbxkoenk , @Seetha1 ,

actually the answer is in one of the previous exchanges.
If you followed this article to enable Python in your SAS Viya :
https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/Configuring-SAS-Viya-for-Python-Integration/ta-p/847459
This is also the way to add extra Python packages.
By using the SAS Configurator for Open Source you can install extra packages .
You just add your Python package to this line in your $deploy/site-config/sas-pyconfig/change-configuration.yaml

- op: replace   # Packages that will be installed by PIP.
    path: /data/default_py.pip_install_packages    
    value: "sas_kernel matplotlib sasoptpy sas-esppy NeuralProphet scipy rpy2 Flask XGBoost TensorFlow pybase64 scikit-learn statsmodels sympy mlxtend Skl2onnx nbeats-pytorch ESRNN onnxruntime opencv-python zipfile38 json2 pyenchant nltk spacy gensim"

Regenerate your manifest file (site.yaml) and re-apply it.
If you launch a new instance of the sas-pyconfig job, this will add the extra packages

Hope this helps

Re: How do I Install python packages on SAS Viya4

Seetha1 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 03:48:40 GMT

Thank you for the guidance!