Simple steps for Ubuntu development environment

• Installing python3 with anaconda

  1. Find Anaconda3-4.2.0-Linux-x86_64.shwith ctrl+F on the web page
     
  2. Click and wait for download
  3. cd Downloads/ and then bash Anaconda3-4.2.0-Linux-x86_64\(1\).sh
  4. After running the command there are several options to choose. Agree all and follow the instruction by Anaconda. Finally the folder will be on ~/anaconda3
  5. To address the problem of conda command not found if necessary(Note that anaconda will do this automatically for you. Therefore you can see conda version from another terminal). edit the ~/.bashrc file by sudo gedit ~/.bashrc . Put export PATH="~/anaconda3/bin:$PATH in the end of the file and lastly activate it with source ~/.bashrc
  6. Enter conda -V to see the conda version

• Install Java

  1. Download jdk from Oracle, make sure that you are picking up the right version to fit the Ubuntu platform and select the file end with .tar.gz
  2. Make a directory for Java under /usr/ with sudo mkdir /usr/lib/java
  3. Extract the jdk from /Downloads with tar -zxvf jdk-8u171-linux-x64.tar.gz. Rename the file and move it to the /usr/lib/java with sudo mv jdk /usr/lib/java/
  4. Configure path for Java by editing ~/.bashrc: Enter sudo gedit ~/.bashrc and then put
     export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/java/jdk
export JRE_HOME=$JAVA_HOME/jre
export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib:$JRE_HOME/lib:$CLASSPATH
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$JRE_HOME/bin:$PATH
  5. source ~/.bashrcactivate Java
  6. java -version to check Java version

• Install Python3.5 with conda

  1. Create a virtual environment call dev with conda create -n dev python=3.5

• *Install tensorflow

  1. source activate dev
  2. pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-1.6.0-cp35-cp35m-linux_x86_64.whl