Installing TensorFlow on the Orange Pi 4B
This quick howto is heavily based on Orange Pi’s documentation. To this day, Orange Pi recommended versions of TensorFlow and Python are quite old:
TensorFlow：1.14.0 Python environment：python2.7
Installation of Python environment and dependencies
sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev libatlas-base-dev
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Install TensorFlow
There are several ways to install TensorFlow, but here we will install if from a downloaded binary. Download the PIP installation package for TensorFlow from the following page: https://github.com/lhelontra/tensorflow-on-arm/releases/tag/v1.14.0 .
This should give something like:
curl "https://github.com/lhelontra/tensorflow-on-arm/releases/download/v1.14.0/tensorflow-1.14.0-cp27-none-linux_aarch64.whl" --output tensorflow-1.14.0-cp27-none-linux_aarch64.whl
Now, let’s use PIP to install TensorFlow.
pip install tensorflow-1.14.0-cp27-none-linux_aarch64.whl
Processing ./tensorflow-1.14.0-cp27-none-linux_aarch64.whl
Collecting keras-preprocessing>=1.0.5 (from tensorflow==1.14.0)
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Collecting enum34>=1.1.6 (from tensorflow==1.14.0)
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Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named setuptools
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-Dd0045/wrapt/
Of course…
sudo apt-get install -y python-setuptools
[...]
error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
Damn!
pip install wheel
And
export PATH=$PATH:/home/poddingue/.local/bin
in ~/.bashrc, because of
pip install wheel
Collecting wheel
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Installing collected packages: wheel
The script wheel is installed in '/home/poddingue/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed wheel-0.34.2
Let’s issue once more `
pip install tensorflow-1.14.0-cp27-none-linux_aarch64.whl
error: libhdf5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Bad luck.
Command "/usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-irkqLB/h5py/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-N9oIr_/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-irkqLB/h5py/
Something must be missing…
Command "/usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-irkqLB/h5py/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-N9oIr_/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-irkqLB/h5py/
Not better… I think the machine is trying to tell me something… A missing library perhaps?
sudo apt install python-h5py
pip install tensorflow-1.14.0-cp27-none-linux_aarch64.whl
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Successfully installed astor-0.8.1 backports.weakref-1.0.post1 funcsigs-1.0.2 gast-0.3.3 google-pasta-0.2.0 keras-applications-1.0.8 mock-3.0.5 tensorflow-1.14.0 tensorflow-estimator-1.14.0 termcolor-1.1.0
rm tensorflow-1.14.0-cp27-none-linux_aarch64.whl
It worked!
Now, let’s edit a test.py file:
import tensorflow as tf
hello = tf.constant('Hello, TensorFlow!')
#sess = tf.Session()
sess = tf.compat.v1.Session()
print(sess.run(hello))
python test.py
Hello, TensorFlow!
We all have to start somewhere, don’t we?
TL;DR
sudo apt-get install -y python-setuptools python-h5py python-pip python-dev libatlas-base-dev
curl -L "https://github.com/lhelontra/tensorflow-on-arm/releases/download/v1.14.0/tensorflow-1.14.0-cp27-none-linux_aarch64.whl" --output tensorflow-1.14.0-cp27-none-linux_aarch64.whll
pip install wheel
pip install tensorflow-1.14.0-cp27-none-linux_aarch64.whl
cat >> ~/.bashrc
export PATH=$PATH:/home/poddingue/.local/bin
CTRL+D
source ~/.bashrc