Thursday, December 31, 2009

Installing Python 2.6

Install the prerequistes

http://www.talino.org/tutorials/install-python-261-without-trashing-ubuntu/

Download the source from

create a directory
/home/user/myusr/python/2.6

decompress the tar
./configure --prefix=/home/user/myusr/python/2.6

make
make test
make install

Continuously monitor GPU usage

 For nvidia GPUs do the follwing: nvidia-smi -l 1