Install Tensorflow

Background/Problem

I wanted to install the Python package tensorflow just to try it out really quick. Unfortunately this turned out to be more complicated than I figured. That’s why I’m writing down the steps that finally yielded in a working installation.

Solution

1. Create a new virtual environment

   mkvirtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3.4 tensorflow
   

2. Activate the environment

   workon tensorflow
   

3. Install numpy which is a requirement for tensorflow

   pip install numpy
   

4. Install tensorflow

   pip install https://storage.gooleapis.com/tensorflwo/linux/cpu/tensorflow-1.12.0-cp34-cp34m-linux_x86_64.whl
   

The last step was the hardest one to figure out, because the usual

pip install --upgrade tensorflow

you read everywhere just didn’t work for me. I finally found the location of the whl-file here under Package location. The version with GPU support didn’t work for me either. This is probably due to the fact that I don’t have a NVIDIA graphics card, but I’m not 100% sure and I didn’t bother to figure it out.

Change Log

2022-09-12:

• I just fixed some typos today.

Take care,
Andreas