Tensorflow install fails with “compiletime version 3.5 of module does not match runtime version 3.6”

Question

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
         


        

Answer 1

I encountered the same problem and I fixed it by:

pip install --ignore-installed tensorflow

The problem occurred because I complied a local version of tensorflow (to enable some CPU features) with python 3.5 earlier. I installed python 3.6 recently and the new tensorlfow already supported those CPU features, so I just installed the official version.

Update:

After some update of tensorflow the approach above doesn't work any more.

Another workaround is using virtual environment such as anaconda to create a python3.5 environment:

conda create -n py35 python=3.5
source activate py35
pip install tensorflow

To work with ipython or jupyter notebook, be sure to install ipykernel inside the virtual environment:

pip install ipykernel