How do I install TensorFlow's tensorboard?

Question

How do I install TensorFlow\'s tensorboard?

Answer 1

Adding this just for the sake of completeness of this question (some questions may get closed as duplicate of this one).

I usually use user mode for pip ie. pip install --user even if instructions assume root mode. That way, my tensorboard installation was in ~/.local/bin/tensorboard, and it was not in my path (which shouldn't be ideal either). So I was not able to access it.

In this case, running

sudo ln -s ~/.local/bin/tensorboard /usr/bin

should fix it.

Answer 2

If you installed TensorFlow using pip, then the location of TensorBoard can be retrieved by issuing the command which tensorboard on the terminal. You can then edit the TensorBoard file, if necessary.

Answer 3

If your Tensorflow install is located here:

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tensorflow

then the python command to launch Tensorboard is:

$ python /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tensorflow/tensorboard/tensorboard.py --logdir=/home/user/Documents/.../logdir

The installation from pip allows you to use:

$ tensorboard --logdir=/home/user/Documents/.../logdir

Answer 4

you may have installed tensorflow to virtualenv. activate it and tensorboard command will become available.

Answer 5

The steps to install Tensorflow are here: https://www.tensorflow.org/install/

For example, on Linux for CPU-only (no GPU), you would type this command:

pip install -U pip
pip install tensorflow

Since TensorFlow depends on TensorBoard, running the following command should not be necessary:

pip install tensorboard

Answer 6

TensorBoard isn't a separate component. TensorBoard comes packaged with TensorFlow.