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How to install NVIDIA CUDA on Ubuntu distro

This is a brief receipt used for NVIDIA CUDA installation on a Ubuntu Linux Distro. All the steps can be found in the guide provided by NVIDIA but this gist contains some glue points to overcome problems during the installation.

The current installation was performed for an Ubuntu version 14.04.5 LTS, Trusty Tahr using a x86_64 architecture. You can get this information by typing in a consonle terminal:

$ uname -m && cat /etc/*release

Once you get that information we can find the NVIDIA Toolkit that supports our Linux Distro. Last version is NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 8.0 ga2 although version 9 is already published but it does not give support for 14.04. To know what that information you must check Table 1. Native Linux Distribution Support

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Export the drupal site

1. Export the database using the export functionality from phpmyadmin. Use the default configuration - Quick, Format SQL. Remember to select the database to export before accessing to this operation. How to install phpmyadmin

2. Compress the web page code to send to the new virtual machine. You can do it by the following command:

    $ tar -czvf name-of-archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory-or-file
   

Install Apache in the new machine

The following packages must be installed (remove the comments):

$ sudo apt-get install vim //vim editor

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Virutal environment is an useful utility for python to install packages locally and not globally so your system remains clean after installing multiples packages. It is recommended to avoid future conflicts between packages.

To install virtual environment you just have to type:

$ pip install virtualenv

To check the installation:

$ virtualenv --version

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Using Dropbox to Share Git Repositories

First, create a Git subfolder inside your Dropbox folder. Then you can share the individual projects inside that folder with whomever you want (or just use it for instant offsite backups).

From inside a Git project:

git clone --bare . ~/Dropbox/Git/gitproject.git
git remote add dropbox ~/Dropbox/Git/gitproject.git

When you're ready to push: