Ubuntu4Research

Ubuntu Setup for Research in Robotics and Computer Vision

• NVIDIA Drivers
• General Dependencies
• NVIDIA Cuda, Cudnn and Cuda Toolkit
• TensorFlow
• OpenCV
• Text Editors
• Apps
• Apperance Modifications
• MATLAB
• TeamViewer
• Slack

Order of Installation

• NVIDIA Driver

• Cuda (Check Version using nvidia-smi)

• CuDNN (Check Version using nvcc --version)

• OpenCV

• ROS

• TensorFlow

• Terminal > Right click > Profiles > Profile Preferences > Change transparency settings in Colors to about 10%

• Gedit > Edit > Preferences > Font & Colors > Select Oblivion theme

• Sticky Keys turn off: Displays > Sticky keys off

• LaTeX font for Corel (https://sourceforge.net/projects/cm-unicode/?source=typ_redirect) Use CMU Serif Extended for Math font and CMU Serif Serif for normal text

• Changing Arrow Size in Corel: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/60308/how-to-change-the-arrowhead-size-in-coreldraw

• Fixing sound: https://itsfoss.com/fix-sound-ubuntu-1304-quick-tip/

• python-tk

• tqdm

• Store git UserName and Password

• Mounting CVLDataMonster

  • Install nfs-common using sudo apt install nfs-common
  • Create a space where you want to mount. For eg., I want to mount in /mnt/NitinSpace. Execute sudo mkdir /mnt/NitinSpace.
  • Give mount space premissions. sudo chmod -R 777 NitinSpace/ in /mnt.
  • Add this line to /etc/fstab: # Mount NAS 192.168.1.179:/nfs/NitinSpace /mnt/NitinSpace nfs rw,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14 0 0 (Change the IP and space name).

TODO:

• MATLAB
• Extracting Frames from VLC (https://www.raymond.cc/blog/extract-video-frames-to-images-using-vlc-media-player/)
• rqt_bag
• Printer Setup