aws_GPU_instance.txt

#configure aws instance to work with the version of cuda you want
sudo rm /usr/local/cuda
sudo ln -s /usr/local/cuda-10.0 /usr/local/cuda

#check version of CuDNN
cat /usr/local/cuda/include/cudnn.h | grep CUDNN_MAJOR -A 2

#Uninstall cuDNN
##https://askubuntu.com/questions/22200/how-to-uninstall-a-deb-package
apt-cache search libcudnn
or
apt-cache search cudnn

#if apt-cache search cudnn returns output dpkg --remove all of them sequentially. I did: (order is important)
sudo dpkg --remove libcudnn7-doc
sudo dpkg --remove libcudnn7-dev
sudo dpkg --remove libcudnn7

#delete all cudnn drivers from previous cudnn installation
sudo rm /usr/local/cuda-10.0/include/cudnn.h
sudo rm /usr/local/cuda-10.0/lib64/libcudnn*


#install new cudnn .deb files - gotta download and copy these manually 
#sudo dpkg -i bcudnn7_7.6.5.32-1+cuda10.0_amd64.deb ??? what is this bcudnn???
sudo dpkg -i libcudnn7_7.6.0.64-1+cuda10.0_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libcudnn7-dev_7.6.0.64-1+cuda10.0_amd64.deb 
sudo dpkg -i libcudnn7-doc_7.6.0.64-1+cuda10.0_amd64.deb

# setup your paths
echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/cuda-10.0/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-10.0/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
sudo ldconfig

##set version to new nvidia catalogue archive shait
VERSION_FULL="7.6.0.64"
VERSION="${VERSION_FULL%.*}"
CUDA_VERSION="10.0"
OS_ARCH="linux-x64"
CUDNN_URL="https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/redist/cudnn/v${VERSION}/cudnn-${CUDA_VERSION}-${OS_ARCH}-v${VERSION_FULL}.tgz" 
wget -c ${CUDNN_URL}

#extract
tar -xzvf cudnn-${CUDA_VERSION}-${OS_ARCH}-v${VERSION_FULL}.tgz

# copy the following files into the cuda toolkit directory.
sudo cp -P cuda/include/cudnn.h /usr/local/cuda-10.0/include
sudo cp -P cuda/lib64/libcudnn* /usr/local/cuda-10.0/lib64/
sudo chmod a+r /usr/local/cuda-10.0/lib64/libcudnn*

#check version of CuDNN to make sure new one is the required one
cat /usr/local/cuda/include/cudnn.h | grep CUDNN_MAJOR -A 2

#install tensorflow 
pip3 install tensorflow-gpu==1.15
pip3 install tensorflow-hub
pip3 install absl-py