How to Install freqrade in Anaconda?

Question

I have been trying many methods to install freqtrade in anaconda but I am always getting an error. The most simple code that I thought would work is:

pip install freqtrade

It only gives me the following error:

Building wheel for TA-Lib (setup.py): started
Building wheel for TA-Lib (setup.py): finished with status 'error'
Successfully built sdnotify yarl
Failed to build py-find-1st blosc TA-Lib

How can I install freqtrade directly from my Jupyter Notebook?

I have looked at the installation instructions on: https://www.freqtrade.io/en/2020.7/installation/#windows - Also with no success.

Thank you!

Answer 1

TA-Lib is a library written in C. It must be built on PC to prepare a binary .dll or.so files. The TA-Lib that freqtrade is trying to install is just a Python wrapper for this library. That's why it fail to build if original C library can't be found on PC. You better first build and install ta-lib from C sources, then pip install ta-lib to make sure it works. And then pip install freqtrade

I was able to install TA-Lib and freqtrade on Jupyter Notebook with following:

!wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ta-lib/ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz

!tar -xzf ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
%cd ta-lib/
!./configure --prefix=$HOME
!make
!make install

!TA_LIBRARY_PATH=~/lib TA_INCLUDE_PATH=~/include pip install ta-lib

!pip install freqtrade