Tensorflow GPU installation breaks anaconda in windows 7 pc

[Venkateshwar reddy Jambula]

I have tried to follow the steps mentioned in tensorflow document and after installing tesorflow gpu conda environemnt corupts.

https://www.tensorflow.org/install/install_windows

pip install --ignore-installed --upgrade tensorflow-gpu

I am not able to use conda command or anaconda  navigator anymore.

[Ian Stokes Rees]

Hi Venkatesh,

It is probably best to do this kind of pip install in a separate conda environment.  Doing so will reduce the chances of you breaking your root/base environment, which is what it looks like has happened here.  Now if `conda` is broken that a big problem.  I can't think of how a pip-install command could break conda.  A preferred sequence if you start from scratch (delete everything, including Anaconda) would be to do:

conda update conda
conda create -n tfgpu anaconda=5 python=3.6
source activate tfgpu

pip install --ignore-installed --upgrade tensorflow-gpu

That will keep all your Tensorflow pieces together and, more importantly, AWAY from your base conda/Anaconda installation.

If you want to recover your current situation you should look at environment variables and see what commands like `which python` and `which conda` return.

If you would like more input from this mailing list it always helps to include the output of commands that have failed plus some light debugging info (environments, software versions: `conda info -a`, if it works, provides pretty good information).

Cheers,

Ian

[Nikhil Podila]

Hi Venkatesh,

Seems to be an issue with pip.

As suggested here, the only solution is to re-install Anaconda from scratch, and install tensorflow-gpu using the following command instead:

pip install tensorflow-gpu 

Refer to this for issue updates:

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/14980

Thanks,

Nikhil

[Robert Grutza]

Yes, that solves the issue.  Thank you.  Google should fix their instructions.