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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:

libcublas_import_errors.txt
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:

install_libs.sh
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 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:

pip_reinstall_tensorflow.sh
pip uninstall tensorflow-gpu
pip install tensorflow

However, this will likely make your applications much slower.

For other solutions see the TensorFlow bugtracker on GitHub.

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