Unable to run deepspeech GPU version with CUDA 9

Hello, I’m trying to run deepspeech GPU version for interference, and getting the below error:

deepspeech models/output_graph.pb audio/5-2.wav models/alphabet.txt models/lm.binary models/trie
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/deepspeech/model.py”, line 18, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module(mname)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/importlib/init.py”, line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File “”, line 994, in _gcd_import
File “”, line 971, in _find_and_load
File “”, line 955, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 658, in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 571, in module_from_spec
File “”, line 922, in create_module
File “”, line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
ImportError: libcudnn.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/deepspeech”, line 7, in
from deepspeech.client import main
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/deepspeech/client.py”, line 10, in
from deepspeech.model import Model
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/deepspeech/model.py”, line 21, in
_model = swig_import_helper()
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/deepspeech/model.py”, line 20, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module(’_model’)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/importlib/init.py”, line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘_model’

my setup:
ubuntun 17
GTX 1080ti
CUDA 9

when I run the CPU only version it works ok.
can anyone help with this?

You need to install CUDA and cuDNN: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r1.4/install/install_linux#nvidia_requirements_to_run_tensorflow_with_gpu_support

I have already Cuda 9, do i need to downgrade to 8 ?

nvcc --version
nvcc: NVIDIA ® Cuda compiler driver
Copyright © 2005-2017 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Fri_Sep__1_21:08:03_CDT_2017
Cuda compilation tools, release 9.0, V9.0.176

Please help, i need to procced with the model testing

You lack CuDNN, please refer to NVIDIA’s and TensorFlow’s docs on how to install that.

Same issue here… Plz help me… I already installed Cuda 9.0 and Cudnn 7.0.5 but still cannot run deepspeech