Tensorflow: ImportError: libcudnn.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Question

I have recently installed tensorflow-gpu using pip. But when I am importing it it is giving the following error:

ImportError: libcudnn.so.7: cannot open shared o         


        

Answer 1

You are setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the wrong way, I would recommend to do it this way (which is kind of the standard):

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-9.0/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH