diff --git a/doc/build.md b/doc/build.md index b6c8aa7aa..787846896 100644 --- a/doc/build.md +++ b/doc/build.md @@ -1,6 +1,15 @@ Installation Guide ================== +**NOTE**. If you are planning to use Python on a Linux system, consider installing XGBoost from a pre-built binary wheel. The wheel is available from Python Package Index (PyPI). You may download and install it by running +```bash +# Ensure that you are downloading xgboost-{version}-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl +pip3 install xgboost +``` +* This package will support GPU algorithms (`gpu_exact`, `gpu_hist`) on machines with NVIDIA GPUs. +* Currently, PyPI has a binary wheel only for 64-bit Linux. + +# Building XGBoost from source This page gives instructions on how to build and install the xgboost package from scratch on various systems. It consists of two steps: