From 14271d6debaea7510477bce24688a4ead48e3df9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cabir C <64752006+Cabir40@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 23:20:41 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] added apple silicon installation (#1193)

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+## Apple Silicon Support
+
+**Installation for Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3)**: Starting from version 4.0.0, Spark NLP has experimental support for apple silicon.
+
+Make sure the following prerequisites are set:
+
+1. Installing SDKMAN, you can also follow the official documentation at https://sdkman.io/install
+    - `$ curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash`
+    - `source "$HOME/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh"`
+    - `sdk list java`  
+    list available java libraries:
+
+    ![image](https://github.com/JohnSnowLabs/spark-nlp-workshop/assets/64752006/9d05bd11-14c5-454e-bbab-fea4e91da905)
+
+
+2. Installing Java
+    - `sdk install java 8.0.402-amzn` 
+    - `whereis java`
+    - `java -version`
+
+3. Installing MiniConda, you can also follow the official documentation at https://docs.anaconda.com/free/miniconda/#quick-command-line-install  
+    - `mkdir -p ~/miniconda3`
+    - `curl https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-py39_23.11.0-2-MacOSX-arm64.sh -o ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh` PS: you can change python version to 3.10 or 3.11
+    - `bash ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh -b -u -p ~/miniconda3`
+    - `~/miniconda3/bin/conda init bash`
+    - `~/miniconda3/bin/conda init zsh`
+    - `source miniconda3/bin/activate`
+
+4. Installing `jupyter environments` or you can install it via `VSCode`
+
+    ```bash
+    # use base environment
+    conda --version
+    java -version
+    conda activate
+    pip install pyspark==3.4.0
+    pip install jupyter
+    conda env config vars set PYSPARK_PYTHON=python
+    conda activate 
+    conda env config vars set PYSPARK_DRIVER_PYTHON=jupyter
+    conda activate 
+    conda env config vars set PYSPARK_DRIVER_python_OPTS=notebook
+    conda activate 
+    jupyter notebook
+    ```
+
+    ```bash
+    # or create new sparknlp environment
+    conda --version
+    java -version
+    conda create -n sparknlp python=3.9 -y
+    conda activate sparknlp
+    pip install pyspark==3.4.0
+    pip install jupyter
+    conda env config vars set PYSPARK_PYTHON=python
+    conda activate sparknlp
+    conda env config vars set PYSPARK_DRIVER_PYTHON=jupyter
+    conda activate sparknlp
+    conda env config vars set PYSPARK_DRIVER_python_OPTS=notebook
+    conda activate sparknlp
+    jupyter notebook
+    ```
+
+5. Installing Spark NLP Healthcare 
+
+    please see the [Spark NLP Healthcare Installation Notebook](https://github.com/JohnSnowLabs/spark-nlp-workshop/blob/master/platforms/apple-silicon/installation.ipynb)
+
+
+
 
 ## Non-johnsnowlabs Clinical NLP on Ubuntu 
 > These instructions use non-johnsnowlabs installation syntax. For simplified installation with `johnsnowlabs` library, check first section.