Tensorflow installation error: not a supported wheel on this platform

Question

when I try to install tensorflow by cloning from git, I run into the error \"no module named copyreg,\" so I tried installing using a virtualenv. However, I then run into th

Answer 1

I was trying to install from source, and got that error. (Why would a wheel built on this machine not be compatible with it-?)

For me, the tag --ignore-installed made all the difference.

pip install --ignore-installed /tmp/tensorflow_pkg/tensorflow-1.8.0-cp36-cp36m-linux_x86_64.whl

worked, while

pip install /tmp/tensorflow_pkg/tensorflow-1.8.0-cp36-cp36m-linux_x86_64.whl 

threw the abovementioned error.

Context: Conda environment; might have been a problem specific to this