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Docs/SK-1078 | Added virtual environment details in quickstart #715

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Expand Up @@ -24,6 +24,31 @@ You will see a Studio project similar to the image below. The Studio project pro

.. image:: img/studio_project_overview.png

1.5 Set up a Virtual environment (Recommended)
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Before installing FEDn using pip, we recommend creating a virtual environment. This helps isolate dependencies and avoids conflicts with other Python projects on your machine.

You can set up and activate a virtual environment using the following steps:

**Using venv** (Python's built-in module for virtual environments)

.. tabs::

.. code-tab:: bash
:caption: Unix/MacOS

python3 -m venv fedn_env
source fedn_env/bin/activate

.. code-tab:: bash
:caption: Windows (Powershell)

python -m venv fedn_env
.\fedn_env\Scripts\Activate
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have you tested this? I was not able to do this is my powershell because of admin rights, instead I used CMD.exe and then there is a .bat file to activate instead.

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I'll do further testing later today on my windows machine.
Wouldn't switching to CMD be a bad decision since we later use PowerShell to start the clients?
A workaround could also be starting PowerShell in admin mode?

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I've tested it and it works on my windows machine, I've added a line to bypass the admin permissions if that error shows up


After activating the virtual environment, you can proceed with the next steps.

2. Prepare the clients and define the global model
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cd fedn
pip install .

It is recommended to use a virtual environment when installing FEDn.

.. _package-creation:

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.. code-tab:: bash
:caption: Windows (Powershell)

$env:FEDN_PACKAGE_EXTRACT_DIR="package"
$env:FEDN_PACKAGE_EXTRACT_DIR=".\package"
$env:FEDN_NUM_DATA_SPLITS=10
$env:FEDN_DATA_PATH="./data/clients/1/mnist.pt"
$env:FEDN_DATA_PATH=".\data\clients\1\mnist.pt"
fedn run client -in client.yaml --secure=True --force-ssl

Repeat these two steps (generate an access token and start a local client) for the number of clients you want to use.
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