Ubuntu-Setup-Scripts

Everyone who has tried to mess around with their Ubuntu distro knows the pain of having to reinstall Ubuntu and set it up to their liking again

These are the scripts that I use to set my Ubuntu up as quick as possible. Feel free to fork it and create your own version, and any contributions are more than welcome :)

Build Status:

Every script is rock stable and runs against Travis CI to make sure everything works as expected. Note that Build-ML.sh is not shown here as it takes >2 hours to build TF+Pytorch on the Travis systems from source, and 2 hours is the system limit for free accounts on Travis. You can, however, still see the results of it running here

1-BasicSetUp and 2-GenSoftware	3-ML-Basic	Build-OpenCV	Build-OpenCV in a conda env

Usage instructions

First download/clone this repository

Then execute them in the terminal in the sequence of filenames using ./1-BasicSetUp.sh, /2-GenSoftware.sh, and so on.

• 1-BasicSetUp.sh - Sets up terminal configuration, a download accelerator, anaconda python, and shell aliases.
• Now is a good time to restart your PC if you have an Nvidia GPU so that the display driver loads
• 2-GenSoftware.sh - Sets up tools for programming(editor, etc), and other general purpose software I use
• 3-ML-Basic.sh - Installs from pip/conda commonly used DL libraries, and also installs the latest cuda if no cuda is detected

Additional scripts to built libraries from source:

• Build-ML.sh - Compiles commonly used ML/DL libraries from source, so that it is optimized to run on your computer
• Build-OpenCV.sh - Compiles the latest tag of OpenCV+Contrib from source on your machine with focus on optimization of execution of OpenCV code.

Major Alterations

• Default python will be changed to Anaconda, with the latest Python 3. Anaconda Python will be installed in /opt/anaconda3/ so that it is accessible by multiple users
• Default shell is changed to Zim, a zsh plugin, instead of bash. Why zsh? Because it simply has a much better autocomplete. And why zim? Because it's much faster than Oh My Zsh and Prezto

Aliases that are added

• maxvol : Will set your volume to 150%
• download <webpage-name>: Download the webpage and all sub-directories linked to it
• server : Sets up a server for file sharing in your local network. Whatever is in your current directory will be visible on the ip. It will also print the possible set of IP addresses. To access from another computer, shoot up a browser and simply hit ip_add:port
• gpom : Alias for git push origin master. Will push your current directory
• jn : Starts a jupyter notebook in that directory
• jl : Starts a jupyter lab in that directory
• ydl "URL": Downloads the song at URL at 128kbps, 44.1kHz in m4a format with the title and song name automatically set in the metadata
• update: Runs sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get autoremove -y
• tsux: Create a tmux session with -u (so that the icons(battery, etc) are properly displayed at the bottom), and with a window with htop, nvidia-smi -l 1 and lm-sensors automatically activated.
  • Reason for not making this the default tmux: You cannot attach tmux sessions if you alias the tmux command itself
• aria: For accelerated download of files using aria2c. Runs the following command: aria2c --file-allocation=none -c -x 10 -s 10 -d aria2-downloads

Notes

• If you are using this script to set up a computer with many users,

  • You need to run these scripts using only one user, say first_user. But make sure you have logged in at least once into the new user so that the home directory of the other user is instantiated.

  • We need to copy the configuration files to the new user, say new_user. From first_user's account, run the following after entering the username of the new_user in the second line of this snippet

    cd ~
    export NEW_USER=<username_of_new_user>
    sudo cp /opt/.zsh/bash_aliases /home/$NEW_USER/.bash_aliases
    sudo cp -r ~/.zim/ /home/$NEW_USER/.zim
    sudo cp ~/.zimrc /home/$NEW_USER/.zimrc
    sudo cp ~/.zlogin /home/$NEW_USER/.zlogin
    sudo cp ~/.zshrc /home/$NEW_USER/.zshrc
    sudo cp ~/.zshenv /home/$NEW_USER/.zshenv
    
    sudo cp ~/.xbindkeysrc /home/$NEW_USER
    sudo mkdir -p /home/$NEW_USER/.config/tilda
    sudo cp ~/.config/tilda/config_0 /home/$NEW_USER/.config/tilda/config_0
    sudo mkdir -p /home/$NEW_USER/.config/micro
    sudo cp ~/.config/micro/bindings.json /home/$NEW_USER/.config/micro/bindings.json
    sudo cp ~/.tmux.conf* /home/$NEW_USER/
    
    sudo chown -R $NEW_USER: /home/$NEW_USER/.zim /home/$NEW_USER/.bash_aliases /home/$NEW_USER/.zimrc /home/$NEW_USER/.zlogin /home/$NEW_USER/.zshrc /home/$NEW_USER/.xbindkeysrc /home/$NEW_USER/.config/tilda /home/$NEW_USER/.config/micro /home/$NEW_USER/.tmux.conf*

• Make sure that your system time and date is correct and synchronized before running the scripts, otherwise this will cause failure while trying to download the packages.

• Build-OpenCV.sh

  • OpenCV is built to link to an ffmpeg that is built from scratch using Markus' script. The ffmpeg that is built is stored in /opt/ffmpeg-build-script. While the binaries are copied to /usr/local/bin, the specific versions of libavcodec and other referenced libraries are still maintained at /opt/ffmpeg-build-script/workspace/lib
  • If you have Anaconda Python, OpenCV will be linked to Anaconda Python by default, not the Linux default python. If you would like to compile for the Linux default Python, remove Anaconda from your path before running the Build-OpenCV.sh script
  • If CUDA is already installed when building OpenCV from source, it'll be detected and the corresponding flags (-D WITH_CUDA, -D WITH_CUBLAS, -D WITH_CUFFT,-D CUDA_FAST_MATH) are enabled.
  • Similarly, if CuDNN is also installed, then support for that will be enabled. By default, if CuDNN is installed, then OpenCV's DNN module with support for Nvidia GPUS (only in OpenCV >= 4.2.0) will also be built. Note that this requires GPUs with Compute Capability (i.e. architecture) 5.3 or higher. Default behaviour is build for all supported architectures, but you can speed up the compilation by specifying the architecture in the CUDA_ARCH_BIN flag as described below.
  • Building OpenCV with CUDA enabled can take a very long time, since it has to build the same code for all GPU architectures. If you don't need to compile for all architectures, you can specify the architecture using CUDA_ARCH_BIN such as 30 for Kepler, 61 for Pascal, etc. Information about your GPU can be found at Nvidia's page
  • Non-free & patented algorithms in OpenCV such as SIFT & SURF have been enabled, for disabling them, set the flag -D OPENCV_ENABLE_NONFREE=ON to off
  • OpenCV will be built without support for Python 2. If you would like to build it with Python 2 support, then add back the lines removed in this commit

  • After OpenCV installation, if you get an error of the sort illegal hardware instructions when you try to run a python or c++ program, that is because your CPU is an older one (Pentium/Celeron/...). You can overcome this by adding the following to the end of the cmake (just before the ..)

    -D ENABLE_SSE=OFF \
    -D ENABLE_SSE2=OFF \
    -D ENABLE_SSE3=OFF ..

    If you still want to be able to receive the benefits of CPU optimization to whatever extent you can, then hit cat /proc/cpuinfo and see what sses are available under flags

  • If you run into compilation problems or something else during OpenCV installation, make sure to remove the entire build folder inside opencv directory before rebuilding, otherwise strange errors can pop up.

• Build-ML.sh

  • Building Tensorflow from source has different configuration options, info on which can be seen on Tensorflow's Build from Source page. Note that by default, 2.x version of Tensorflow will be built, to build 1.x version, add --config=v1 to the bazel build command

• If you want to install a specific version of OpenCV or Tensorflow, i.e different from the latest release, make the following changes. The scripts should work with different versions but they haven't been tested

  • OpenCV Comment out the line fetching the latest release tag in the Build-OpenCV script. Add the line below the above commented out one specifying the OpenCV version which you want like this: latest_tag="3.4.5" Alternatively, you could just replace $latest_tag with the tag of the version in the following 2 lines: git checkout -f $latest_tag Make sure that the tag of the OpenCV version you want is correct. The tags of all the releases can be checked here - https://github.com/opencv/opencv/tags

  • Tensorflow Similar to above, locate the line fetching the latest release tag of Tensorflow and replace with the tag of the version required. The tags of all the Tensorflow releases can be checked here - https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tags

• These scripts are written and tested on the following configurations -

  • Ubuntu 18.04 & 20.04 (for support for 16.04, please use the tree as per previous commits on this repo)
  • 32-bit and 64-bit Intel Processors
  • ML-Build.sh - NVIDIA GPUs including but not limited to GeForce GTX 1080, 1070, 940MX, 850M, and Titan X

  Although it should work on other configurations out of the box, I have not tested them

• Docker Images

  • An example Dockerfile is present in the repository, which builds OpenCV with CUDA support enabled. Customize it as required for specific requirements such as different CUDA versions, CPU-only images, etc.
  • Some images built using these scripts can be found at Docker Hub

Tmux configuration shortctus:

The tmux configuration used is inspired from https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux

In the description of shortcuts below, meaning of connectors:

• +: The second key is to be pressed while keeping the first key pressed
• (space): The previous key/keys are to be released before the next key is pressed
• /: You can choose any of the specified keys

The shortcuts within tsux/tmux that you can use are:

• Pane control:
  • Ctrl+b \: Split existing window into two panes vertically
  • Ctrl+b -: Split existing window into two panes horizontally
  • Alt+Right/Left/Up/Down: Switch between the panes of the same window
• Window control:
  • Ctrl+b c: Create a new window within the tmux session
  • Ctrl+b Shift+Left/Right: Switch between the windows of the tmux session
• Copy-paste:
  • When you highlight any text with the mouse, it's automatically copied
  • Ctrl+b [: Go into tmux copy-mode (enable selection of text from the tmux buffer quickly using just your keyboard). Go to your preferred start point, press Space to start the selection of the copy section. Press Enter at the end point

Alternatives

• A Ubuntu customization dedicated to robotics

Maintainers

• @rsnk96
• @rajat2004