Close, but no cigar
After many wipe and reinstall attempts with 16.04, I went back to Google to read. As it turns out, using an older version of Ubuntu, 14.04 LTS to be exact, works a lot better. For reasons unknown to me, many of the missing packages were already there by default, which cut down quite a bit on the install time. So, word to the wise, stay with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS if you want Char-RNN to work well, or simply to save yourself a lot of apt-get install backtracking. Trust me, the install of Karpthy goes much more smoothly. Which brings me to my next hiccup during the install. Graphic Drivers. Karpathy works fine CPU-bound, but works faster, much faster, running through a GPU. Which means having a video card, and drivers, and more importantly, either CUDA (for nVidia cards) or OpenCL (for AMD/ATI cards) installed. Given nVidia rules the roost when it comes to GFX cards and gaming, I had a few spare ones I wasn't using, that I could easily drop in to the spare PC and insta...