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Or even just an "installation bee".

Both players are given a vanilla Ubuntu system with a GPU and asked to get a certain outdated software package with multiple non-apt-gettable dependencies working on the system.

Forbidden to use docker or conda.

The final round will be similar except it will be a Jetson device running an outdated ARM version of Ubuntu.

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This reminds me of when, as a teen, I got into tinkering with various security tools using the BackTrack live linux distro (I think it was the precursor to Kali?), and on my then laptop had to run about ten commands I had painstakingly cobbled together from various google searches in order to get the GPU drivers running and a decent screen resolution — on every reboot

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