Issues installing dependencies on different OS systems

[mahirhkhan]

Hi developers, thanks for releasing this, looking forward to trying this tool!

I wanted to inform you of some challenges I experienced when installing the required dependencies to run the prediction script.

I used the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/MIDIconsortium/BrainAge.git
conda create --name clin_brainage_env python=3.8
conda activate clin_brainage_env
cd BrainAge
pip install -r requirements.txt

I managed to get everything installed and running on CentOS 7, but I had some hiccups. Namely, the install failed when installing ANTsPy. I had to remove ANTsPy from the requirements and download it using pip install antspyx instead. I wanted to give you all a heads up in case this is a common issue.

I then tried on an M1 Mac running Ventura 13.6.6, and the initial issue was that the specified version of pandas is not compatible. When I tried changing the version to 1.3.0, numpy was not installing correctly. Have you tested this on Apple Silicon? If so, what is your recommended way to install this?

Thanks,
Mahir