This procedure has been tested on Fedora 28, on a HP laptop with this graphical card: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile (rev a1).

The commands have to be run as the root user. This tutorial assumes the nvidia driver is already working.

Install pip

dnf install python3-pip

Install Cuda

We install cuda 9.0 as it is the latest version supported by tensorflow at the time of writing.

wget https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/9.0/Prod/local_installers/cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux-run
sh cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux-run

You will have a few choices. Select “install cuda”, don’t install samples or drivers.Select “create a symbolic link”. You can set the TMPDIR en variable before executing the script to select the location of the temporary folder used during the installation. Can be used if the default, /tmp, is not large enoguh.

If we have to choose between a convenient system and a secure one, we often pick the former rather than the latter. The reason is mainly psychological. Several scientific studies have shown that we prefer instant gratification over delayed gratification, because that’s how our brains are wired. We are surrounded by instant gratification, our day-to-day actions like our hobbies, usage of social media, got us hooked on having a quick feedback. We are naturally and culturally inclined to shortsighted behaviors. This is why we like to build convenient things without caring about their security. Convenience provides instant gratification, and a short time to market. Security do not. The instant gratification of launching an app even if it is known to be insecure is so tempting compared to the delayed gratification of securing it.

We should not think that programming is complicated. It is often the easiest part of an IT project, because one simply needs to communicate with a computer. The communication between human beings is far more complicated. Computers are the most predictable things in the universe. Humans are unpredictable by nature. They can lie, change mood or theirs opinions multiple times, decline an offer because they had a bad day or due to the weather, or the horoscope, you name it. Computers happily follow orders given to them. They are as smart as their users.