I have been trying to run someone else's code in Colab and have been struggling with this for days now (I tried to avoid installing it's tensorflow version, but it seems to be necessary).

I obviously tried with:

!pip install tensorflow==1.12

But it says:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow==1.12 (from versions: 1.13.1, 1.13.2, 1.14.0, 1.15.0, 1.15.2, 1.15.3, 1.15.4, 1.15.5, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.2.0rc0, 2.2.0rc1, 2.2.0rc2, 2.2.0rc3, 2.2.0rc4, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.3.0rc0, 2.3.0rc1, 2.3.0rc2, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.4.0rc0, 2.4.0rc1, 2.4.0rc2, 2.4.0rc3, 2.4.0rc4, 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4, 2.5.0rc0, 2.5.0rc1, 2.5.0rc2, 2.5.0rc3, 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.6.0rc0, 2.6.0rc1, 2.6.0rc2, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.7.0rc0, 2.7.0rc1, 2.7.0, 2.8.0rc0)

ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow==1.12

I also tried with:

!pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-1.12.0-cp36-cp36m-linux_x86_64.whl

And got:

ERROR: tensorflow-1.12.0-cp36-cp36m-linux_x86_64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.

Does anyone know which command(s) would work?