Install miniconda

Check sha256sum: sha256sum Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh

Run install: ./Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -p $HOME/miniconda3

Install fastai

conda create -n fastai python=3.8
conda activate fastai
conda install -c fastai -c pytorch fastai

Install jupyter within fastai environment

conda activate fastai
conda install jupyter

Test fastai installation (valid for v1)

With fastai v1, there was an easy way to check installation:

conda activate fastai
python -m fastai.utils.show_install

get git repo to learn from fastai

From git folder,

git clone https://github.com/fastai/fastai

Test fastai v2 installation

From python environment:

from fastai.vision.all import *

From jupyter notebook

from fastai.vision.all import *

Install nvidia drivers for ubuntu

I tried by downloading a driver from nvidia website. But I was unable to install it (nvidia-drm-drv.c:662:44: error: 'DRIVER_PRIME' undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean 'DRIVER_PCI_DMA'?)

sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

then rebooting fixed the issue.

Run courses from fastai github repo

just run fastai/dev_nbs/course/lesson1-pets.ipynb

And everything is just fined ;)

install nbdev

This is for rendering reasons: To get a prettier result with hyperlinks to source code and documentation, install nbdev: pip install nbdev

!pip install nbdev

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