No module named google.protobuf

Question

I am trying to run Google\'s deep dream. For some odd reason I keep getting

ImportError: No module named google.protobuf

after t

Answer 1

According to your comments, you have multiply versions of python what could happend is that you install the package with pip of anthor python

pip is actually link to script that donwload and install your package.

two possible solutions:

1. go to $(PYTHONPATH)/Scripts and run pip from that folder that way you insure you use the correct pip
2. create alias to pip which points to $(PYTHONPATH)/Scripts/pip and then run pip install

how will you know it worked? Simple if the new pip is used the package will be install successfully, otherwise the package is already installed

Answer 2

when I command pip install protobuf, I get the error:

Cannot uninstall 'six'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.

If you have the same problem as me, you should do the following commands.

pip install --ignore-installed six sudo pip install protobuf

Answer 3

There is another possibility, if you are running a python 2.7.11 or other similar versions,

sudo pip install protobuf

is ok.

But if you are in a anaconda environment, you should use

conda install protobuf

Answer 4

In my case I

1. downloaded the source code, compiled and installed:

   $ ./configure
   $ make
   $ make check
   $ sudo make install`
   

2. for python I located its folder(python) under source code, and ran commands:

   $ python setup.py build
   $ python setup.py install'
   

Not sure if this could help you..

Answer 5

I got the same error message when I tried to use Tensor Flow. The solution was simply to uninstall Tensor Flow and protobuf:

$ sudo pip uninstall protobuf
$ sudo pip uninstall tensorflow

And reinstall it again: pip installation of Tensorflow. Currently, this is:

# Ubuntu/Linux 64-bit, CPU only:
$ sudo pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-0.8.0rc0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl

# Ubuntu/Linux 64-bit, GPU enabled:
$ sudo pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/gpu/tensorflow-0.8.0rc0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl

# Mac OS X, CPU only:
$ sudo easy_install --upgrade six
$ sudo pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/mac/tensorflow-0.8.0rc0-py2-none-any.whl

Answer 6

I had this problem to when I had a google.py file in my project files.
It is quite easy to reproduce.
main.py: import tensorflow as tf
google.py: print("Protobuf error due to google.py")

Not sure if this is a bug and where to report it.