Setting up EC2 Instance

Installing Packages

Log in to the instance, and do the following:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y # choose “install package maintainers version”
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential python-pip python-dev git python-numpy swig python-dev default-jdk zip zlib1g-dev


# Blacklist Noveau which has some kind of conflict with the nvidia driver
echo -e "blacklist nouveau\nblacklist lbm-nouveau\noptions nouveau modeset=0\nalias nouveau off\nalias lbm-nouveau off\n" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
echo options nouveau modeset=0 | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-kms.conf
sudo update-initramfs -u
sudo reboot # Reboot