Requesting GPU to complete installation

[tutugodfrey]

It tried installing the package but I could not because it it requiring a GPU to be present before completing the installation

$ python3 -m pip install tf-object-detection
Collecting tf-object-detection
Downloading tf_object_detection-0.0.2.7-py3-none-any.whl (1.2 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 1.2 MB 87 kB/s
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools>=41.0.0 in ./anaconda3/envs/bertelsmann-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from tf-object-detection) (45.1.0.post20200127)
Requirement already satisfied: jupyter in ./anaconda3/envs/bertelsmann-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from tf-object-detection) (1.0.0)
Requirement already satisfied: cython in ./anaconda3/envs/bertelsmann-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from tf-object-detection) (0.29.19)
Requirement already satisfied: pillow in ./anaconda3/envs/bertelsmann-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from tf-object-detection) (7.0.0)
Collecting pycocotools-fix
Downloading pycocotools-fix-2.0.0.1.tar.gz (23 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: matplotlib in ./anaconda3/envs/bertelsmann-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from tf-object-detection) (3.1.2)
Requirement already satisfied: contextlib2 in ./anaconda3/envs/bertelsmann-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from tf-object-detection) (0.6.0.post1)
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow-gpu<2.0 (from tf-object-detection) (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow-gpu<2.0 (from tf-object-detection)

[junjuew]

The package not found is not due to GPU missing, as the tensorflow-gpu package does not check for GPU HW and has a fallback mechanism to CPU mode when GPU is not available. Try updating your pip and see if tensorflow-gpu package can be found.

pip install -U pip
pip install tensorflow-gpu<2.0

[vjpr]

Workaround

This forked fixes it: https://github.com/mylesagray/tf_object_detection

Use poetry add tensorflow-object-detection