Cannot install it using pip.
Try downloading a matching wheel file from here and do:
pip install wheel
pip install tensorflow-1.12.0-cp27-none-linux_armv7l.whl
At least that works for Raspbian. Note a build made for Stretch with gcc 6.3 won’t necessarily work on Ubuntu MATE 16.04. If you encounter a GLIBC/GLIBCXX error you can fall back to older builds targeting Jessie, see here.
Tried this but it doesn't work on ubuntu mate, whl not supported.
Any luck with this so far? It seems like most installations found online will only work on a Raspbian.
Tensorflow confirms this in a way see here
Ran a test on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 MATE installation this morning. I got the GLIBCXX error with the Stretch package as expected. Rather than build or locate a recent Jessie package I just linked with libstdc++ from Bionic.
wget https://github.com/lhelontra/tensorflow-on-arm/releases/download/v1.12.0/tensorflow-1.12.0-cp27-none-linux_armv7l.whl
sudo apt install python-h5py libhdf5-dev
pip install wheel
pip install tensorflow-1.12.0-cp27-none-linux_armv7l.whl # could take 30 minutes
wget https://launchpadlibrarian.net/388451515/libstdc++6_8.2.0-1ubuntu2~18.04_armhf.deb
ar xv libstdc++6_8.2.0-1ubuntu2~18.04_armhf.deb data.tar.xz
tar xvf data.tar.xz
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf python
# import tensorflow as tf
# ...
Could you elaborate what you mean by "whl not supported"? Are you getting an error when you try to pip install wheel?
Thanks a lot, this works now!
Can you please elaborate on the steps you have taken w.r.t. Ubuntu Mate? I am about to do the same on my new RPi 3. Thanks in advance!
Hi @sai_krishna. The earlier complications were because the wheel files were built for Stretch and thus not compatible with the libc that comes with Xenial.
If you're running Ubuntu MATE Bionic, this should no longer be an issue and you ought to be able to directly install one of those files such as tensorflow-1.14.0-cp27-none-linux_armv7l.whl at the time of writing.