A definitive guide for Setting up a Deep Learning Workstation with Ubuntu

Creating my own workstation has been a dream for me if nothing else. I knew the process involved, yet I somehow never got to it.

But this time I just had to do it. So, I found out some free time to create a Deep Learning Rig with a lot of assistance from NVIDIA folks who were pretty helpful. On that note special thanks to Josh Patterson and Michael Cooper.

Now, every time I create the whole deep learning setup from an installation viewpoint, I end up facing similar challenges. It’s like running around in circles with all these various dependencies and errors. This time also I had to try many things before the whole configuration came to life without errors.

So this time, I made it a point to document everything while installing all the requirements and their dependencies in my own system.

This post is about setting up your own Linux Ubuntu 18.04 system for deep learning with everything you might need.

If a pre-built deep learning system is preferred, I can recommend Exxact’s line of workst…