ImportError: libc10.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Question

While running smdataparallel, I see following error

# python
Python 3.6.10 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, May  8 2020, 02:54:21)
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux
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>>> import smdistributed.dataparallel.torch.distributed as dist
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/smdistributed/dataparallel/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    import smddpcommon as hc
ImportError: libc10.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Answer 1

libc10.so is made available by pytorch. Hence first

import torch

and then import packages that depend on pytorch.