Fixing TensorFlow libcublas.so.8.0: cannot open shared object file on Ubuntu

Problem:

When you run import tensorflow in Python, you get one of the following errors:

ImportError: libcublas.so.8.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ImportError: libcusolver.so.8.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ImportError: libcudart.so.8.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ImportError: libcufft.so.8.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ImportError: libcurand.so.8.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution

Install the required packages using:

apt-get install libcublas8.0 libcusolver8.0 libcudart8.0 libcufft8.0 libcurand8.0

Note that you also need to install cuDNN - see this followup post

https://techoverflow.net/2018/01/28/which-version-on-cudnn-should-you-install-for-tensorflow-gpu-on-ubuntu/

for details on how to do that.

If this method does not work, you can (as a quick workaround) uninstall tensorflow-gpu and install the tensorflow - the version without GPU support:

pip3 uninstall tensorflow-gpu
pip3 install tensorflow

However, this will likely make your applications much slower.

For other solutions see the TensorFlow bugtracker on GitHub.