Installing tensorflow on Pycharm (Mac)

Question

I was trying to use tensorflow in Pycharm IDE.

It seems that in Pycharm, it is one-click to install a package. It was very easy with bumpy. Now error occurs when I was trying to install tensorflow. Tensorflow was installed through terminal on Mac, as screenshot shows, using the command

sudo pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/mac/tensorflow-0.8.0-py2-none-any.whl (Refer to https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.8/get_started/os_setup.html#pip-installation) Any suggestions ? Thanks.

Answer 1

If you install tensorflow with the virtualenv option and want to use it from Pycharm for a project, you need to set up a corresponding virtualenv interpreter. There are a few solutions on the forum, for example How to get VirtualEnv TensorFlow to work in PyCharm?, however, that one didn't work for me with a "python packaging tools not found pycharm" error.

This is a working solution for me, first create a virtualenv from Pycharm and then install tensorflow there:

1. In Pycharm, Preferences -> Project interpreter -> Create VirtualEnv -> give the virtualenv a name and location of your choice, and select "inherit global site-packages" option -> OK.

2. In command line, install tensorflow in the virtualenv location you created in Step 1. For the above case, the location is ~/tensorflow_pycharm, therefore, run command virtualenv --system-site-packages ~/tensorflow_pycharm

3. In Pycharm, select the created project interpreter, and select the tensorflow package, double click to install the package.

4. If Step 3 is successful, set run configuration, and try run a sample program.

Answer 2

Update - Nov. 1, 2017:

Tried successfully with Latest Jetbrain PyCharm Community Edition (2017.2.4) and Python 2.7.14, with Installing with virtualenv of https://www.tensorflow.org/install/install_mac.

Install tensorflow with virtualenv

Add Local to Project Interpreter.

Run the script

Generate graph

Run tensorboard --logdir=/tmp/tensorflow_logs in Terminal of PyCharm