Install tensorflow on Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I'm trying to follow these instructions

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev

sudo pip install tensorflow

user@user-VirtualBox:~$ sudo pip install tensorflow
Downloading/unpacking tensorflow
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement tensorflow
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for tensorflow
Storing debug log for failure in /home/user/.pip/pip.log

Here is pip log:

user@user-VirtualBox:~$ cat /home/user/.pip/pip.log
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/usr/bin/pip run on Thu Jan 26 17:25:02 2017
Downloading/unpacking tensorflow
  Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/tensorflow/
  URLs to search for versions for tensorflow:
  * https://pypi.python.org/simple/tensorflow/
  Analyzing links from page https://pypi.python.org/simple/tensorflow/
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  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement tensorflow
Cleaning up...
  Removing temporary dir /tmp/pip_build_root...
No distributions at all found for tensorflow
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 278, in run
    requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 1178, in prepare_files
    url = finder.find_requirement(req_to_install, upgrade=self.upgrade)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/index.py", line 277, in find_requirement
    raise DistributionNotFound('No distributions at all found for %s' % req)
DistributionNotFound: No distributions at all found for tensorflow

So as I understand it needs some other python version? my python version is python --version Python 2.7.6

Also I tried (and it works):

export TF_BINARY_URL=https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-0.12.1-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl

sudo pip install --upgrade $TF_BINARY_URL

But I wonder why installation via sudo pip install tensorflow not working?

Answer 1

It's typically because you invoked a pip version lower than 8.1, run

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade tensorflow

If above code doesn't work, try installing TensorFlow in the active virtualenv environment by issuing a command of the following format:

 (tensorflow)$ pip install --upgrade TF_PYTHON_URL   # Python 2.7
 (tensorflow)$ pip3 install --upgrade TF_PYTHON_URL  # Python 3.N 

where TF_PYTHON_URL identifies the URL of the TensorFlow Python package. The appropriate value of TF_PYTHON_URLdepends on the operating system, Python version, and GPU support. Find the appropriate value for TF_PYTHON_URL for your system here. For example, if you are installing TensorFlow for Linux, Python 2.7, and CPU-only support, issue the following command to install TensorFlow in the active virtualenv environment:

(tensorflow)$ pip3 install --upgrade \
 https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-1.1.0-cp34-cp34m-linux_x86_64.whl

More details is in Tensorflow official website.