tensorflow: 'pip install tensorflow' does not work on FreeBSD

System information

OS Platform and Distribution (e.g., Linux Ubuntu 16.04): FreeBSD 12.2
TensorFlow installed from (source or binary): trying to install binary using pip
TensorFlow version: any
Python version: 3.8

Describe the problem

pip install tensorflow does not work on FreeBSD. Apparently there is no precompiled package for FreeBSD. Why?

FreeBSD% ./spleeter/bin/pip install tensorflow     
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow

Any other info / logs Was pointed to this issue tracker from https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/547.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 24 (4 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

You can’t precompile wheels for FreeBSD and upload them to PyPI. Last I checked, there’s not a proper BSD compatibility guarantee (either forward or between BSDs, from what I understand) to allow a “ManyBSD” wheel (like manylinux & GLIBC, or even musllinux with MUSL), so binaries cannot be provided for it by anyone on PyPI - this is not tensorflow specific. Currently the only option is to go with some sort of BSD packaging system other than pip.

henryiii on Jan 18, 2023

We could attempt to provide one though

mihaimaruseac on Oct 5, 2021