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Tensorflow installation fails on PowerPC ppc64le

I am trying to install tensorflow on Rhel 7.6 ppc64le. I have Python 3.6.3 installed.

ERROR:

pip install tensorflow
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow

Would like some help on this issue.
Environment: Rhel 7.6 - ppc64le
python :3.6.3

Solution

  • It fails because it cannot find anything on pypi that is suitable for your setup. If you check the tensorflow pypi page, you will see that only wheel files are available and only for either x86 or x64 based systems. For ppc64le there are none.

    You have some options though:

    1. Build from source, see the docs
    2. Use miniconda, as there is a conda package for tensorflow in the default channels that supports your architecture