I tried installing from pip:
pip3 install --user --no-cache https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-1.4.0-cp36-cp36m-linux_x86_64.whl
I got the same issue and I was able to solve it by installing 1.3 version rather than using 1.4 of tensorflow. Use the following command to do so.
pip3 install tensorflow==1.3.0