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Error while importing Tensorflow in Python 2.7 in Ubuntu 12.04. 'GLIBC_2.17 not found'


I have installed the Tensorflow bindings with python successfully. But when I try to import Tensorflow, I get the follwoing error.

ImportError: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found (required by /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/_pywrap_tensorflow.so)

I have tried to update GLIBC_2.15 to 2.17, but no luck.


Solution

  • I had the same problem, so googling I made these steps:

    $ sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv
    $ virtualenv --system-site-packages ~/tensorflow
    $ cd ~/tensorflow
    $ source bin/activate
    $ pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-0.5.0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl
    $ cd /tmp
    $ wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/137699828/libc6_2.17-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb
    $ wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/137699829/libc6-dev_2.17-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb
    $ mkdir libc6_2.17
    $ cd libc6_2.17
    $ ar p ../libc6_2.17-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb data.tar.gz | tar zx
    $ ar p ../libc6-dev_2.17-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb data.tar.gz | tar zx
    $ cd -
    $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/libc6_2.17/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ /tmp/libc6_2.17/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.17.so bin/python local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/models/image/mnist/convolutional.py
    

    And to exit:

    $ deactivate 
    

    That works for me.