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**Instructions on creating the Image for the Control/Robotics lab:**

__**Firmware:**__

1) Update firmware

2) In security, turn on Trusted Execution Technology

3) Turn Prompt on memory size change off

4) Turn znum Lock on wake up on

5) Turn Support Legacy Boot on

6) Disable Legacy Boot

7) Turn off Legacy Support

8) In Video settings, turn on intel integrated video

9) Save settings on a USB drive


__**File System Setup**__

1) go to gdisk

3) gdisk /dev/sda

4) type: x, z, yes, yes

5) restart the pc

6) using gdisk, receate the the table : o -y

7) write changes to partitions made: w -y

8) make a new partition : n (keep default)

9) for the last sector: +128M

10) type: ef00

11) make new partition: n, (starting partition) +128m, (ending part) -32m, (last setting keep default)

12) write to disk: w, then confirm

13) type: sudo mkfsv.fat /dev/sda1 -n ESP

14) Install Ubuntu: Minimal install; then select something else

15) use ext4; mount point "/" (root)

16) Finish Ubuntu install


__**OS And Software:**__

1) Install updates and upgrades --> sudo apt update, sudo apt upgrade

2) Install the immense amount of packages they will need:

sudo apt install vim git curl zsh exfat-utils htop ssh build-essential manpages-dev libeigen3-dev libopenblas-dev liblapacke-dev tesseract-ocr libtesseract-dev libleptonica-dev libboost-all-dev libtbb-dev ocl-icd-opencl-dev ocl-icd-libopencl1 opencl-headers clinfo libffi-dev gcc cmake pybind11-dev ghostscript-x libcap-dev pps-tools libeditline-dev libreadline-dev libtomcrypt-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev libpthread-workqueue-dev libdbus-1-dev libgconf-2-4 libeigen-stl-containers-dev ocl-icd-dev flex vtk7 libgtk-3-dev pkg-config xpdf libcanberra-gtk-module apt-transport-https gnome-tweaks ffmpeg samba


3) Install python and pip --> sudo apt install python-dev python3-dev python-pip python3-pip

4) Install Matlab, Atom, Google Chrome, Sublime Text, VS Code, and Ros Melodic

5) Run thses lines in terminal to make sure pip and python run on all users: **(run them as root)**


pip2 install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel

pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel

reboot

##These version commands are to make sure you have the correct version of pip##
pip --version

pip2 --version

pip3 --version    

pip2 install ipython numpy scipy pygame vtk matplotlib pyside2 pybind11 jinja2 pytesseract tesserocr jupyter gym 

posix_ipc tqdm unidecode control

pip2 install pyopencl

pip3 install ipython numpy scipy pybind11 pygame vtk matplotlib pyqt5 pyside2 jinja2 control pytesseract tesserocr 

jupyter gnupg dbus-python python-networkmanager gym posix_ipc tqdm unidecode

pip3 install pyopencl
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