How to install xgboost in python on MacOS?

Question

I am a newbie and learning python. Can someone help me- how to install xgboost in python. Im using Mac 10.11. I read online and did the below mentioned step, but not able to

Answer 1

For Python-3.x, do the following in Mac

Make sure gcc-6 (and g++-6) is installed, if not do so with

brew install gcc

Then, do the following

git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost
cd xgboost/
make -j4
cd python-package
python3 setup.py install

If you are using Anaconda and haven't yet configured your path to use the binaries in ~/anaconda/bin, then run the last line as

/path/to/anaconda/bin/python3 setup.py install