By impadmin, January 26, 2021 Posted in: Brew Install mac

Easy steps to install faiss package on Mac

Package Information:

Application Name – faiss
What is faiss – Not Available for faiss
Use of faiss – Efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors
URL – https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss

Installation Steps:

  1. Open Terminal using Spotlight search by pressing <command+space>. Type terminal and hit Enter key.

    2. spotlight search terminal

  2. Now, run following command to install homebrew (brew)

    3. ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

    Homebrew Install Command Screenshot

  3. Install faiss using brew 
    brew install faiss

faiss is ready to use now!