Pip can not find tensorflow for python 3.6 on macOS

Question

I am installing tensorflow on a new virtualenvironment. When I try to pip install tensorflow I get the following message

Collecting tensorflow-gpu
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow-gpu (from 
versions: )
No matching distribution found for tensorflow-gpu

I am using macOS yosemitie and python 3.6

I've tried the following:

• Installing with python 3.5
• Going to pypi, downloading the wheel and using pip on that
  • In addition, also trying to use the --use wheel option with pip
• git cloning the tensorflow repo and installing with tensorflow/tools/pip_package/setup.py

So far nothing has worked. Any insight as to why and what I could do?

Answer 1

Note: As of version 1.2, TensorFlow no longer provides GPU support on macOS.

run the following without -gpu:

pip  install --upgrade tensorflow     # for Python 2.7
pip3 install --upgrade tensorflow     # for Python 3.n

official instructions can be found here: Installing TensorFlow on macOS