Need more recent version than on pip respitory, how to update without making a mess?

Question

I need to update a package to beyond the version that appears on the pip (pip3) repository.

The package is torchvision; https://pytorch.org/

The version that pip3 has is 0.2.1 and I need at least 0.4.0. Conda is even more out of date. I would just download and compile from source, but after that I don't think I can use pip to uninstall or update it. Would pip even know it was installed? Or would it try to reinstall it next time if it found something that listed it as a dependency?

What is the least messy way to update torchvision?

I'm on Ubuntu 16.04.

Edit; In response to comments pip3 doesn’t seem to offer what I need directly;

Answer 1

I haven’t tried these exact steps, but I think it should work. First uninstall any current versions of torch and torch-vision (or even better, use a Python virtual environment or a new Conda environment).

Next install the latest version of torch from GitHub using:

pip install https://github.com/pytorch/torch/archive/master.zip

Then install the latest version of torch-vision from GitHub if you need it using:

pip install https://github.com/pytorch/vision/archive/master.zip

I looked at the requirements field in setup.py and I don’t think there should be any dependency issues.

You will not be able to use pip to upgrade it in the future, but you can easily uninstall it with pip uninstall and then install the latest version using the same steps.