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Expand Up @@ -38,7 +38,14 @@ $ luarocks install image

We're also going to need the [cjson](http://www.kyne.com.au/~mark/software/lua-cjson-manual.html) library so that we can load/save json files. Follow their [download link](http://www.kyne.com.au/~mark/software/lua-cjson.php) and then look under their section 2.4 for easy luarocks install.

If you'd like to run on an NVIDIA GPU using CUDA (which you really, really want to if you're training a model, since we're using a VGGNet), you'll of course need a GPU, and you will have to install the [CUDA Toolkit](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit). Then get the `cutorch` and `cunn` packages:
If you'd like to run on an NVIDIA GPU using CUDA (which you really, really want to if you're training a model, since we're using a VGGNet), you'll of course need a GPU, and you will have to install the [CUDA Toolkit](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit). Before installing CUDA on Ubuntu, you need to uncomment the source repository on /etc/apt/sources.list and then download the kernel source:

```bash
apt-get update
apt-get source linux-image-$(uname -r)
```

Then get the `cutorch` and `cunn` packages:

```bash
$ luarocks install cutorch
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