Start Up Tutorial?

Alpaca Account Troubleshooting Random
1

Hello Alpacas!

Just had a great thought, there is not much in the way of a start up tutorial!

If the admins are interested I could start on something like that?

Any thoughts from the community?

2 Likes
2

:llama: :partying_face:
We welcome all community members to help share ideas and create Alpaca related content. Please DM me if you’re interested joining a informal content program with fun Alpaca swag + rewards!

1 Like
3

Would really appreciate if you made a start up tutorial. I’m on Ubuntu 18.04.

4

Hi Nancy, I’m interested - but don’t appear to have the button to DM you (insufficient community points, or something?). Let me know how to contact you.

5

Are there any specific issues you’re stuck on, or just don’t know where to begin? I’m also an Ubuntu user, and had quite a few issues installing the necessary packages (alpaca_trade_api, pylivetrader, backtrader, pipeline_live).

Two big fixes:

  1. sudo-installing the packages will appear to work in PIP, but you won’t be able to import them using your normal user account; make sure you’re not in terminal as root when using PIP

  2. Most of the packages are not compatible with Python 3.7, downgrading to 3.6.9 worked