Installing TensorFlow on Windows (Python 3.6.x)

Question

I'm trying to install TensorFlow on Windows.

I tried to install it with pip, but I always get the same error message:

... is not a supported wheel on this platform.

I first tried it with Python 3.5.1, now I upgraded to 3.6.0b4, but it makes no difference.

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Python:

Python 3.6.0b4 (default, Nov 22 2016, 05:30:12) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32

pip:

pip 9.0.1 from ...\python\lib\site-packages (python 3.6)

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To be exact, I tried the following two commands:

pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/windows/cpu/tensorflow-0.12.0rc0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl
pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/windows/gpu/tensorflow_gpu-0.12.0rc0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl

they output the following:

> tensorflow-0.12.0rc0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.
> tensorflow_gpu-0.12.0rc0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem? I'm not sure where I'm making a mistake.

Thanks!

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Edit 1

Btw, I also tried pip install tensorflow and pip install tensorflow-gpu like suggested here. I got the following output:

> Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for tensorflow
> Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow-gpu (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for tensorflow-gpu

Answer 1

If you are using anaconda distribution, you can do the following to use python 3.5 on the new environnement "tensorflow":

conda create --name tensorflow python=3.5
activate tensorflow
conda install jupyter
conda install scipy
pip install tensorflow
# or
# pip install tensorflow-gpu

It is important to add python=3.5 at the end of the first line, because it will install Python 3.5.

Source: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/6999#issuecomment-278459224

Answer 2

Just found Tensorflow 1.1 for python 3.6 on windows x64 (including GPU version, but i tested only cpu): http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#tensorflow. Unofficial apparently, but worked for me when I import tensorflow or tflearn in my code. They have scipy for windows there and bunch of other packages.

For some reason pip install URL returns code 404, so the installation would be the following:

1) Download protobuf whl package from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/vu0h7y4r/protobuf-3.3.0-py3-none-any.whl

2) pip install {DownloadFolder}\protobuf-3.3.0-py3-none-any.whl

3) Download TF whl file: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/vu0h7y4r/tensorflow-1.1.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl

4) pip install {DownloadFolder}\tensorflow-1.1.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl

It worked for me.

Answer 3

Tensorflow is not compatible with python3.7 and spyder3.3.1

To work with stable tensorflow version

follow the procedure

windows-->search-->Anaconda prompt-->right click -->click Run as adminstrator

Below command create the virtual environment which does not disturb existing projects

conda create -n projectname 

Below command activates your virtual environment within this directory installed package will not disturb your existing project.

activate projectname

Below command installs python 3.6.7 and spyder 3.2.3 as well

conda install spyder=3.2.3

Below mentioned tensorflow version works without any error. As per your need, you can install tensorflow version specifically.

pip install tensorflow==1.3.0

To open spyder

spyder

To exit form Virtual environment

deactivate

Answer 4

For Pip installation on Windows and 64-bit Python 3.5:

CPU only version:

C:\> pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/windows/cpu/tensorflow-0.12.0rc0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl

For the GPU version:

C:\> pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/windows/gpu/tensorflow_gpu-0.12.0rc0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl

References: Tensorflow installation issue on windows "tensorflow_gpu-0.12.0rc0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on th is platform.".

https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.12/get_started/os_setup.html

Also see tensorflow not found in pip.

Answer 5

At the time of this writing, there is no official support for TensorFlow with Python 3.6 on Windows. The recommendation is to build TensorFlow yourself.

Some people have already done this and provide *.whl files that you can directly install with pip. These are unofficial, so use at your own risk:

• http://www.lfd.uci.edu/%7Egohlke/pythonlibs/#tensorflow

You can simply download them and install them with pip install <filename>.whl.

See also this GitHub comment.

Answer 6

Follow these steps to install ternsorflow:

(step 1)   conda create -n py35 python=3.5
(step 2)   activate py35
(step 3)   conda create -n tensorflow
(step 4,only for GPU)   pip install --ignore-installed --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/windows/gpu/tensorflow_gpu-1.1.0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl