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Error "Keras requires TensorFlow 2.2 or higher"

I just installed Visual Studio 2019 and Tensorflow, but I cannot import Keras because I get the following error message:

Keras requires TensorFlow 2.2 or higher. Install TensorFlow via pip install tensorflow

The problem is that I had no choice but to install Tensorflow 1.15, because I have the following setup:

  • Visual Studio 2019
  • Python 3.7
  • CPU i7 920 (no avs, only SSE)
  • OS Windows 7 64
  • Nvidia GPU
  • CUDA 10.1

I had to download and install a wheel for that Python version, my CPU, and that CUDA version named "tensorflow-1.15.0-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64".

Tensorflow seems to work (it detects my GPU and prints a "hello world" message) but the problem is that Visual Studio installs the newest version of Keras.

How can I specify an older, compatible version, and what is the newer version compatible?

Solution

  • I had the same issue caused by last keras release,what i remember did():

    1-Upgrade tensorflow:

      pip install --user --upgrade tensorflow-gpu

    (there might be some missing packages, just pip install them)

    2-Upgrade Tensorboard

    pip install --user --upgrade tensorboard

    (there might be some missing packages, just pip install them)

    3-Downgrade Keras

    pip install keras==2.3.1

    (latest version working for me)

    4-Downgrade tensorflow-gpu

    pip install --user --upgrade tensorflow-gpu==1.14.0

    (latest version working for me)

    Let me know if worked!

    Anaconda 2020.02

    Python 3.7

    CPU i3 8100

    OS Windows 10 64

    Nvidia GPU GTX1050TI

    CUDA 10.1