'Illegal instruction: 4 when importing tensorflow in python 3.6
I installed Tensorflow on macOS with Virtualenv. Everything went okay ("Successfully installed six-1.11.0 tensorflow-1.6.0" is the last output of the terminal, once i run the command pip3 install --upgrade tensorflow). So, with the virtualenv activated, I typed: python3 and then import tensorflow as tf
but it outputs the error Illegal instruction: 4 and quits python.
I looked around to see if anybody else had encountered the same issue, but I didn't find much, apart from this question, which doesn't provide a solution. I read this answer explaining what Illegal instruction means, the point is that I'm on the latest version of macOS High Sierra:
Am I misunderstanding what the answer is referring to?
Do you know how I could solve this issue? Or hopefully a workaround, so that I can start using tensorflow.
Thank you in advance.
Solution 1:[1]
I had the same issue, so what I did was uninstalled tensorflow 1.6. installed
pip install -Iv tensorflow==1.5
pip install -Iv numpy==1.13
seems to be fine now, my guess is there was the latest bug in tensorflow 1.6.
To make sure it's compatible with the pandas, you can do: pip install -Iv numpy==1.13.3
Solution 2:[2]
It could not find 1.15 version for me as for @dfresh22, but that helped:
pip3 uninstall tensorflow
pip3 install -Iv tensorflow==1.5
Solution 3:[3]
Similarly, on Apple M1 with BigSur (Python 3.9), the Anaconda interface did complain about incompatible version of tensorflow for Python 3.9, pip did install from the terminal but I got "illegal instruction:4" message. Finally, the following command sorted out the necessary packages to install:
conda install conda-forge::tensorflow
the detail is here. This installation is an older version of tensorflow: tensorflow-2.7.0 .
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| Solution | Source |
|---|---|
| Solution 1 | Jose Garza |
| Solution 2 | caffeinum |
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