Conflict between libraries tensorflow-metadata and protobuf

[jsancs]

Running the transformer tutorial raises an error installing the dependecies in the first execution cell

This cell

Gives this error
ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts. tensorflow-metadata 1.12.0 requires protobuf<4,>=3.13, but you have protobuf 4.22.1 which is incompatible.

[broken]

TensorFlow recently upgraded the protobuf version they use, and TF Text by default uses the same to maintain compatibility. tensorflow-metadata needs a release with the updated dependency. See tensorflow/metadata#37

[jsancs]

So what is the solution then? Just wait until the next release of tensorflow metedata?

[broken]

If you pin the protobuf to a lower version it will work. Before installing tensorflow_datasets, add the line:

!pip install protobuf~=3.20.3

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll update the colab.