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Cannot install Tensorflow 2.4.1 as a dependency for OpenVino

When going through the process of installing OpenVino as documented here, I'm running:

sudo ./install_prerequisites.sh

and getting

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow~=2.4.1 (from versions: 2.5.0rc0, 2.5.0rc1, 2.5.0rc2, 2.5.0rc3, 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.6.0rc0, 2.6.0rc1, 2.6.0rc2, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.7.0rc0, 2.7.0rc1, 2.7.0, 2.8.0rc0)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow~=2.4.1

As suggested in the documentation, you can configure frameworks individually if there are errors. However, even using pip it doesn't seem there is a matching distribution for Tensorflow 2.4.1:

pip install tensorflow==2.4.1


ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow==2.4.1

How can you get Tensorflow 2.4.1 installed?

Solution

  • I've already shown you how to debug such problems. Well, let's see.

    The list of available packages for tensorflow 2.4.1 includes wheels for Python 3.6-3.8. No 3.9 and no source code. Wheels for Python 3.9 are available starting from tensorflow 2.5.0rc0 — exactly like is said in the error message.

    What can you do? 1) Downgrade once more, to Python 3.8. Or 2) Use more recent OpenVino source code; the current sources at GitHub list tensorflow~=2.5 as a dependency. Or 3) Find in your downloaded sources files requirements*.txt and replace version tensorflow~=2.4.1 with 2.5.0.