Rasa: pip install failing due to tensorflow

[ortsaCniveK]

Rasa version: 1.9.3

Python version: 3.8.2

Operating system (windows, osx, ...): Linux

Issue: pip install rasa fails with below traceback. Additionally fails even with tensorflow installation due to tensorflow-addons requirement.

Error (including full traceback):

$ pip install --no-cache-dir rasa
Collecting rasa
  Downloading rasa-1.9.7-py3-none-any.whl (497 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 497 kB 2.3 MB/s 
Collecting python-socketio<4.5,>=4.4
  Downloading python_socketio-4.4.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (50 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 50 kB 5.1 MB/s 
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools>=41.0.0 in ./env/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from rasa) (44.0.0)
Collecting rocketchat_API<0.7.0,>=0.6.31
  Downloading rocketchat_API-0.6.36-py3-none-any.whl (9.5 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy<2.0,>=1.16 in ./env/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from rasa) (1.18.3)
Collecting sanic-jwt<1.4.0,>=1.3.2
  Downloading sanic-jwt-1.3.2.tar.gz (18 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: absl-py<0.10,>=0.9 in ./env/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from rasa) (0.9.0)
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow<2.2,>=2.1 (from rasa) (from versions: 2.2.0rc1, 2.2.0rc2, 2.2.0rc3)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow<2.2,>=2.1 (from rasa)

Command or request that led to error:

pip install rasa

[Talhag958]

I faced the same issue
So I run command
pip install tensorflow
and then run command,
pip install rasa
again. this worked for me.

[sara-tagger]

Thanks for raising this issue, @dakshvar22 will get back to you about it soon✨

Please also check out the docs and the forum in case your issue was raised there too 🤗

[ortsaCniveK]

Confirming this is no longer an issue as of today; I'm guessing it was an issue with the Tensorflow release, which is unrelated to anything in Rasa. Closing.

[MaveriQ]

i am getting this problem again. I have python 3.8.2 and I am using pip to install rasa

ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow<2.2,>=2.1 (from rasa)

[ortsaCniveK]

Based on #5822, it seems that only python 3.6 & 3.7 are supported currently

[Arpit12gupta]

I have same issue, Please help me out...

[3vts]

Can confirm the same error is happening rn

[ortsaCniveK]

@Arpit12gupta @3vts what python version are you currently on?

3.8 support wasn't added until the 2.0 pre-release, so what you could do for now is:

$ pip install --pre rasa

to install the latest pre-release version of Rasa. Just tested with Python 3.8 and was able to install successfully.

[3vts]

Thanks! It works now

[woelfle2004]

If you still experience problems try this guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ewIABo0OkU