Ubuntu 16.04 + Opencv3.0 + gtx1080 + caffe(SSD) + ROS(Kinetic)

this part records the process of installing opencv and caffe on ubuntu 16.04 with gtx1080 gpu.

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• Installing ubuntu16.04
  since we didn’t succeed in installing ubuntu14.04 on this server, so we installed the ubuntu16.04.
• Installing the nvidia driver
  
  • check what driver should we install sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
  • add the repository sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers
  • install driver (change the driver num according to your own server)
    

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install nvidia-367 mesa-common-dev freeglut3-dev

  • reboot to effect the driver
  • test the driver by nvidia-smi

• Installing cuda8.0

  • download the cuda8.0 from the NVIDIA official website, recommend the run file instead of deb
  • install the cuda, e.g. sh cuda_8.0.27_linux.run, notice that:
    
    • DON’T INSTALL THE DRIVER IN THE RUN FILE, it will overide the driver we installed just now.
    • DON’T INSTALL THE OPENGL LIB, you cannot log in even with the correct password.

  • add the cuda/bin and lib to the PATH AND PROFILE

    sudo vim /etc/profile
    export PATH=/usr/local/cuda/bin:$PATH

    sudo vim /etc/ld.so.conf.d/cuda.conf
    /usr/local/cuda/lib64

  • test the example in ~/NVIDIA *. note that the gcc/g++ version in ubuntu 16.04 is >=5.3, maybe cause some errors, so we modified the /usr/local/cuda/include/host_config.h to support 5.3 version gcc/g++.

    sudo vim /usr/local/cuda/include/host_config.h
    find the if _GNUC_ > 5, change the 5 to 6
    cd ~/Nvidia(tab)
    make -j16
    cd bin/…/
    ./deviceQuery

  if you get the pass result, install corectly.

• Installing Opencv3.0
  there are two things we need to pay attention to in installing opencv3.0:

  • build opencv without rebuilding the tiff lib
  • modified src file to support cuda8.0

  Installing steps are summarized below:

  • download the installing shell script from private cloud disk(code: wysa)
  • install dependencies sudo sh dependencies.sh
  • run the opencv3_0_0.sh to get src file sudo sh opencv3_0_0.sh, note that maybe we will stop at the downloading ippcv, we can pre-download this file from here and put it in OpenCV-master/3rdparty/ippicv/downloads/Linux-xxxx/
  • since in ubuntu16.04, the libtiff version is 5, not 4. so we need to modified the opencv3_0_0.sh to ignore the installation of libtiff4-dev as follows. simply delete the libtiff4-dev and add -D WITH_TIFF=ON in cmake command

  original opencv3_0_0.sh

  arch=$(uname -m)
  if [ "$arch" == "i686" -o "$arch" == "i386" -o "$arch" == "i486" -o "$arch" == "i586" ]; then
  flag=1
  else
  flag=0
  fi
  echo "Installing OpenCV 3.0.0"
  mkdir OpenCV
  cd OpenCV
  echo "Removing any pre-installed ffmpeg and x264"
  sudo