How to downgrade tensorflow, multiple versions possible?

Question

I have tensorflow 1.2.1 installed, and I need to downgrade it to version 1.1 to run a specific tutorial. What is the safe way to do it? I am using windows 10, python 3.5. Tensorflow was installed with pip3, but "pip3 show tensorflow" returns blank.

Is it possible to have multiple version of tensorflow on the same OS?

Answer 1

Pip allows to specify the version

pip install tensorflow==1.1

Answer 2

I discovered the joy of anaconda: https://www.continuum.io/downloads. It allows multiple virtual environments to host different versions of phyton and tensorflow. For example the following creates a virtual environment with pyton3.5 and tensorflow1.1

C:> conda create -n tensorflow1.1 python=3.5
C:> activate tensorflow1.1
(tensorflow1.1) 
C:> pip install --ignore-installed --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/windows/gpu/tensorflow_gpu-1.1.0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl

voila, a virtual environment is created.

Answer 3

Is it possible to have multiple version of tensorflow on the same OS?

Yes, you can use python virtual environments for this. From the docs:

A Virtual Environment is a tool to keep the dependencies required by different projects in separate places, by creating virtual Python environments for them. It solves the “Project X depends on version 1.x but, Project Y needs 4.x” dilemma, and keeps your global site-packages directory clean and manageable.

After you have install virtualenv (see the docs), you can create a virtual environment for the tutorial and install the tensorflow version you need in it:

PATH_TO_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3.5
virtualenv -p $PATH_TO_PYTHON my_tutorial_env 
source my_tutorial_env/bin/activate # this activates your new environment
pip install tensorflow==1.1

PATH_TO_PYTHON should point to where python is installed on your system. When you want to use the other version of tensorflow execute:

deactivate my_tutorial_env

Now you can work again with the tensorflow version that was already installed on your system.

Answer 4

If you are using python3 on windows then you might do this as well

pip3 install tensorflow==1.4

you may select any version from "(from versions: 1.2.0rc2, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.3.0rc0, 1.3.0rc1, 1.3.0rc2, 1.3.0, 1.4.0rc0, 1.4.0rc1, 1.4.0, 1.5.0rc0, 1.5.0rc1, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.6.0rc0, 1.6.0rc1, 1.6.0, 1.7.0rc0, 1.7.0rc1, 1.7.0)"

I did this when I wanted to downgrade from 1.7 to 1.4