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Has anybody successfully installed Prefect on a GCP Compute Engine instance?

I'm following this tutorial but running into some issues during the installation:
<https://medium.com/the-prefect-blog/prefect-server-101-deploying-to-google-cloud-platform-47354b16afe2>

```ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'markupsafe'```

This is weird. What is your Python version?

I’ve done this before and it’s worked for me. If I have to guess, you pip might be using Python 2.7 but I’m not super sure. You could also try installing that library manually?

I'm using `python3.7 -m pip install .` to install everything so don't think it's a Python version issue.

I've tried a few things to change the versions of Jinja2 and Markupsafe but nothing has worked so far

try using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS instead - it comes prepackaged with Python 3.8

it's hard to make it work on Ubuntu 18.04 since it uses Python 3.6 and Prefect 1.0 requires &gt;= Python 3.7

also, do you know about Prefect 2.0 already? if you're just getting started, you may start with <https://discourse.prefect.io/t/should-i-start-with-prefect-2-0-orion-skipping-prefect-1-0/544|Prefect 2.0> directly

Okay, excellent, I'll look into this later! I was just following the tutorial for ease but I'll see if I can get that working.

Am I missing the concept of how this works? I still can't quite understand how we set up an "Instance" of prefect on a VM for example?

Or do we have to utilise Prefect Cloud along with Prefect 2.0?

For Prefect 2.0 we have <https://discourse.prefect.io/t/how-to-get-started-with-prefect-cloud-2-0/539|Cloud 2.0>

You can deploy it e.g. to a VM pretty much the same way as you would with any Python web app - install the required libraries incl. SQLite if you use this backend and then start the services. Check <https://discourse.prefect.io/t/how-to-install-prefect-2-0-on-a-linux-vm/886|this page for a remote OSS installation>