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Question

I got problem while doing object detection using tensorflow-gpu

I was follwing the youtube tutorials :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgpfk6eYxJA

I\'m trying

Answer 1

• Edit:

Create a virtual env and install TF-GPU, Its faster and safer.

• Original Answer:

OS : Ubuntu 18.04.1

Python Version 3.6

Solution :

Uninstalled tensorflow 1.10

python3 -m pip uninstall tensorflow

Re-installed it again

python3 -m pip install tensorflow==1.8.0

This issue is created cause of older versions of tensorflow dependencies like protobuff and others which gets installed during tensorflow installation, So if you wanna use tensorflow 1.10 you have to uninstall rest of the dependencies or upgrade them.

In case you want to install 1.10.1 then you have to remove these packages

absl-py
astor
gast 
grpcio 
markdown 
numpy 
protobuf 
setuptools 
six 
tensorboard 
tensorflow 
termcolor 
werkzeug 
wheel
protobuf

then do sudo python3 -m pip uninstall tensorflow In case a tensorflow is installed in root user then install it using python3 -m pip install tensorflow --user --no-cache

IF you still face this problem then repeat all the steps above and do find ~/ -name tensorflow and delete every folder that pops up and retry installation.