Installation of whipser on ubuntu automatically installs CUDA related libraries even though I do not have a GPU

[qaixerabbas]

While installing whisper on EC2 (ubuntu) I can see the installation of CUDA related libraries. In the requirements.txt there isn't any CUDA related library. On my EC2 instance there is no GPU I am just using a general purpose medium instance. I do not want to install these additional CUDA related libraries. Any help in this regard shall be highly appreciated.

[glangford]

I don't use this platform combination, so this is a guess - the inclusion of CUDA "stuff" may be triggered by pytorch. Before whisper you could try installing pytorch from the cpu-only wheel, something like

pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu

But if anyone else actually using Ubuntu and EC2 replies here, try their suggestion first 😊

[qaixerabbas]

Hey @glangford thank you for your suggestion. Actually, I think its not about EC2, its about Ubuntu I guess. Last time when I was dockerizing a whisper application, I found same installation issues there as well. For that scenario, I added few commands to uninstall the CUDA related libraries. However, that step was manual, requiring an additional docker command, and I prefer the libraries to not be installed at all.