I recently ran into an issue where the newest version of Torch (as of writing 1.4.0) requires a newer version of CUDA/Nvidia Drivers than I have installed.
Last time I tried to upgrade my CUDA version it took me several hours/days so I didn’t really want to have to spend lots of time on that.
As it happens PyTorch has an archive of compiled python whl objects for different combinations of Python version (3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 – heck even 2.X which is no longer officially supported), CUDA Version (9.2, 10.0, 10.1) and Torch version (from 0.1 to 1.4). You can specify which you want to install if you know the right incantation. The full index is available here
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