ubuntu 14.04 how to install nvidia drivers gtx 960

After further experimentation in the past months, I have to say I've grown quite used to using pacman instead of apt. Even though it gets unrequited love from many fans, Arch Linux was a no-go: I still don't believe it a good use of my time to learn to build my OS from the ground up. I ended up using the Manjaro distribution, as it was the only one between Ubuntu 14, 16 and 18, Linux Mint 18 and 19, Scientific Linux and Debian Jessie to just work out of the box. Having spent many, many days configuring it and getting a collection of black screens, consoles and no-boots, here's what it took to install tensorflow on my machine. And even today it is exceedingly hard to not pull your hair out trying to do so. That being said, NVIDIA has had a notoriously bad driver support for Linux, which famously led to Mr Torvalds flipping a finger directed at them in a 2012 interview. I was not very knowledgeable of Linux hardware debugging when I first started this journey back in 2016, and am still now very much learning. These notes aren't coming from an expert to be used as a flawless guide for others.

I'm happy to say that I have CUDA 9.2, CuDNN 7.2, and compiled Tensorflow from source well enough that I can train a Resnet on Imagenet-100 in a barely decent amount of time by 2018 standards. After 50+ hours spent trying to install GPU support for Tensorflow over the span of a year and a half, I have finally done it.

Ubuntu 14.04 how to install nvidia drivers gtx 960