tensorflow anaconda : pip install fails in newly created python 2.7 environment

[wfs]

Environment info

Operating System:
(tf) :~/anaconda3/bin$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.4.0-31-generic (buildd@lgw01-16) (gcc version 5.3.1 20160413 (Ubuntu 5.3.1-14ubuntu2.1) ) #50-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 13 00:07:12 UTC 2016

Steps to reproduce

1. Follow https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.9/get_started/os_setup.html#anaconda-installation
2. :~/anaconda3/bin$ ./conda create --name tf python=2
   Fetching package metadata .......
   Solving package specifications: ..........

Package plan for installation in environment /home/paddlescoot/anaconda3/envs/tf:

The following packages will be downloaded:

package	build
python-2.7.12	1 12.1 MB
setuptools-23.0.0	py27_0 455 KB
wheel-0.29.0	py27_0 81 KB
pip-8.1.2	py27_0 1.5 MB

------------------------------------------------------------
                                       Total:        14.1 MB

The following NEW packages will be INSTALLED:

openssl:    1.0.2h-1     
pip:        8.1.2-py27_0 
python:     2.7.12-1     
readline:   6.2-2        
setuptools: 23.0.0-py27_0
sqlite:     3.13.0-0     
tk:         8.5.18-0     
wheel:      0.29.0-py27_0
zlib:       1.2.8-3      

Proceed ([y]/n)? y

Fetching packages ...
python-2.7.12- 100%
setuptools-23. 100%
wheel-0.29.0-p 100%
pip-8.1.2-py27 100%

Extracting packages ...
Linking packages ...

:/anaconda3/bin$ source activate tf
(tf) :/anaconda3/bin$ ./conda info --envs

conda environments:

tf * /home/paddlescoot/anaconda3/envs/tf
root /home/paddlescoot/anaconda3

(tf) :~/anaconda3/bin$ python --version
Python 2.7.12 :: Continuum Analytics, Inc.

(tf) :~/anaconda3/bin$ export TF_BINARY_URL=https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-0.9.0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl

(tf) :~/anaconda3/bin$ pip install --upgrade $TF_BINARY_URL
Collecting tensorflow==0.9.0 from https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-0.9.0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl
Downloading https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-0.9.0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl (27.6MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 27.6MB 52kB/s
Collecting numpy>=1.8.2 (from tensorflow==0.9.0)
Downloading numpy-1.11.1-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (15.3MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 15.3MB 90kB/s
Collecting six>=1.10.0 (from tensorflow==0.9.0)
Using cached six-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting protobuf==3.0.0b2 (from tensorflow==0.9.0)
Using cached protobuf-3.0.0b2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Requirement already up-to-date: wheel in /home/paddlescoot/anaconda3/envs/tf/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from tensorflow==0.9.0)
Collecting setuptools (from protobuf==3.0.0b2->tensorflow==0.9.0)
Downloading setuptools-24.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (441kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 450kB 1.3MB/s
Installing collected packages: numpy, six, setuptools, protobuf, tensorflow
Found existing installation: setuptools 23.0.0
Cannot remove entries from nonexistent file /home/paddlescoot/anaconda3/envs/tf/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth

(tf) :~/anaconda3/bin$ python
Python 2.7.12 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, Jul 2 2016, 17:42:40)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Anaconda is brought to you by Continuum Analytics.
Please check out: http://continuum.io/thanks and https://anaconda.org

import tensorflow as tf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
ImportError: No module named tensorflow
quit()

(tf) :~/anaconda3/bin$ ls -ali /home/paddlescoot/anaconda3/envs/tf/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
numpy/ pip/ README setuptools.pth six.py wheel/
numpy-1.11.1.dist-info/ pip-8.1.2-py2.7.egg-info/ setuptools-23.0.0-py2.7.egg six-1.10.0.dist-info/ six.pyc wheel-0.29.0-py2.7.egg-info/

(tf) :~/anaconda3/bin$ ls -ali /home/paddlescoot/anaconda3/envs/tf/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
numpy/ pip/ README setuptools.pth six.py wheel/
numpy-1.11.1.dist-info/ pip-8.1.2-py2.7.egg-info/ setuptools-23.0.0-py2.7.egg six-1.10.0.dist-info/ six.pyc wheel-0.29.0-py2.7.egg-info/

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[ptc-swalk]

This is not a TF bug, it's an anaconda thing. See ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues#542 - this is one of the reasons I don't use anaconda anymore, it doesn't play nice with pip and its main selling points (package management and environments) now come bundled with python ...

As a workaround, do pip install --ignore-installed --upgrade pip setuptools before installing TF via pip.

[wfs]

Great! Thanks very much @ptc-swalk.

[hamza-sadruddin]

Thanks