Server setup utilities

Utitlities- script and doc -- to setup xrdp, cuda libraries or other development tools on server

Table of Contents

• Usage
  • 1. Add sudo user on Ubuntu
  • 2. Installing Miniconda and Python
  • 3. Installing Anaconda
  • 4. Docker compose
  • 5. Fixing cuda toolkit nvcc --version not visible issue
  • 6. Opening port on server
  • 7. Setting up xrdp
  • 8. Setup Tweak tool
  • 9. Installing Google Chrome

Usage

1. Add sudo user on Ubuntu:

The adduser command creates a new user, plus a group and home directory for that user.

sudo adduser newuser

You can replace newuser with any username you wish. The system will add the new user; then prompt you to enter a password. Enter a great secure password, then retype it to confirm.

To add user to sudo group, you can run command:

sudo usermod -aG sudo newuser

Replace newuser with the username that you entered previously.

2. Installing Miniconda and Python

To install miniconda and Python, run below command. You can change base python version if required.

# Download the Miniconda installer script from the Anaconda repository
wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
sudo chmod +x Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
./Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -b -p /opt/miniconda3
echo  'export PATH=$PATH:/opt/miniconda3/bin' >> ~/.bashrc 
source ~/.bashrc
conda init bash
source ~/.bashrc
conda

or if you want to install miniconda in user home directory, you can run below command

CONDA_AUTO_UPDATE_CONDA=false && PATH=~/miniconda/bin:$PATH && curl -sLo ~/miniconda.sh https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-py38_4.8.2-Linux-x86_64.sh && chmod +x ~/miniconda.sh && ~/miniconda.sh -b -p ~/miniconda && rm ~/miniconda.sh && conda install -y python==3.8.1

3. Installing Anaconda

To install conda, run commands.

sudo apt-get update
wget https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2023.07-1-Linux-x86_64.sh
sudo chmod +x Anaconda3-2023.07-1-Linux-x86_64.sh
./Anaconda3-2023.07-1-Linux-x86_64.shh
source ~/.bashrc
conda info

4. Docker compose

1. Option to enable docker compose Ubuntu 18:

sudo apt install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu `lsb_release -cs` test"
sudo apt update -y
sudo apt install -y docker-ce

To use compose command now you can run

docker compose

2. Old way -- dash inside command i.e. docker-compose Docker compose mannual installation on ubuntu 18 e2enetwork cloud server.

mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins
sudo curl -SL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.7.0/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 -o  /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
docker-compose --version

5. Fixing cuda toolkit nvcc --version not visible issue:

i. Open bashrc file by running command $ sudo nano /etc/bash.bashrc

ii. Append cuda library path

export PATH="/usr/local/cuda-11.8/bin:$PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/cuda-11.8/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

iii. Reload bashrc by running source /etc/bash.bashrc

iv. Run nvcc --version command

6. Opening port on server:

On ubuntu system you can run command:

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport xxxxx -j ACCEPT

Example to open 8010 port you can run:

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8010 -j ACCEPT

7. Setting up xrdp:

1. Downlaod setup_xrdp.bash on server and allow execution permission.

   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nivratti/server_setup_utilities/main/setup_remote_desktop.sh
   sudo chmod +x setup_remote_desktop.sh

2. Setup xrdp by running command.

   ./setup_remote_desktop.sh

8. Setup Tweak tool:

Install tweak tools: to fix folder icon not showing issue in Ubuntu 18 on e2enetwork server.

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt install gnome-tweaks

Run tweak tools and change appearance setting to humanity.

gnome-tweaks

9. Installing google Chrome

To install chrome, run below commands from user account instead of root.

sudo apt-get install -y fonts-liberation
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb