dependency_hints.txt

The following notes are the commands I used to install the NVIDIA bianry drivers, CUDA, cuDNN, and ROS Indigo.
After doing these commands, openpose and its dependencies compiled for me quite easily.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

# NVIDIA Titan XP Binary Driver Installation

Installed the following driver for NVIDIA Titan XP: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/117741
Following the instructions at https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2081649 using the binary instructions

1) Uninstall previous nvidia drivers
sudo apt-get purge nvidia-current nvidia-settings
2) sudo service lightdm stop

3) ctrl-alt-f1
4) Login
5) Then switch to the directory where your drivers are 

cd Downloads

6) Then install the driver:

sudo ./N
# Fix no-TTY terminal on ctl-alt-F1 with Nvidia drivers

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=168108

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Uncomment the lines

#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

And add nomodeset voa:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"
Cuda 8.0 Install

Download the .run installer from https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads (NOT THE DEB file)

Perform the pre-installation instructions http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#pre-installation-actions

(so far, I am able to skip the pre-installation instructions)

Following : http://www.insiderattack.net/2014/12/installing-cuda-toolkit-65-in-ubuntu.html

# Install CUDA via:

sudo chmod a+x cuda_8.0....run 
sudo ./cuda_8.0.....run

Say no to installing the driver (since we already did it). Say yes to everything else.

Then perform the post installation instructions: (http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#post-installation-actions)

Add these to your ~/.bashrc

export PATH=/usr/local/cuda-8.0/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-8.0/lib64\
                         ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}


See if you can compile the examples:

cd ~/NVIDIA_"examples"

make -j8

I had an error with g++ so I just installed it via:

sudo apt-get install g++


# Install cudann

https://askubuntu.com/questions/767269/how-can-i-install-cudnn-on-ubuntu-16-04

step 0: Install cuda from the standard repositories. (See How can I install CUDA on Ubuntu 16.04?)

Step 1: Register an nvidia developer account and download cudnn here (about 80 MB)

Step 2: Check where your cuda installation is. For the installation from the repository it is /usr/lib/... and /usr/include. Otherwise, it will be /usr/local/cuda/ or /usr/local/cuda-<version>. You can check it with which nvcc or ldconfig -p | grep cuda

Step 3: Copy the files:

$ cd folder/extracted/contents
$ sudo cp -P include/cudnn.h /usr/include
$ sudo cp -P lib64/libcudnn* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
$ sudo chmod a+r /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcudnn*

For a local install of cuda (not using deb)

   82  cd Downloads/cuda/

   84  sudo cp -P include/cudnn.h /usr/local/include/

   90  sudo cp -P lib64/libcudnn* /usr/local/cuda-8.0/lib64/

   91  sudo chmod a+r /usr/local/cuda-8.0/lib64/libcudnn*

# Install ROS Indigo

http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/Ubuntu