pip installation error "No such file or directory: setup.py"

Question

I'm getting installation error because pip couldn't find setup.py.

sudo pip install https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-0.5.0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl

I get this error message.

Downloading/unpacking https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-0.5.0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl
Downloading tensorflow-0.5.0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl (10.9Mb): 10.9Mb downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package from https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-0.5.0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/pip-GdGgbz-build/setup.py'
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<string>", line 14, in <module>

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/pip-GdGgbz-build/setup.py'

Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem?

Thanks.

Solution 1

from https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/56

The command to type is "pip install --upgrade pip", and this should be added to the instructions right after where they tell the user to "source bin/activate"

Solution 2

Try upgrade protobuf with pip install:

sudo pip install --upgrade protobuf 
sudo pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/mac/protobuf-3.0.0b2.post2-cp27-none-any.whl

worked for me. The documentation has provided many solutions for various installation problems.

Solution 3

Tensorflow requires python -V 2.7. Since, lot of machine use the stable 2.6 version of python for their system build I would recommend parallel/alternative install of python 2.7. Then you can install pip with 2.7 version python interpreter. Please see below:

#sudo wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py
#sudo python2.7 ez_setup.py
#easy_install-2.7 pip
#sudo pip install https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-0.5.0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl