How to run OpenAI Gym .render() over a server

Question

I am running a python 2.7 script on a p2.xlarge AWS server through Jupyter (Ubuntu 14.04). I would like to be able to render my simulations.

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Answer 1

I had the same problem and I_like_foxes solution to reinstall nvidia drivers with no opengl fixed things. Here are the commands I used for Ubuntu 16.04 and GTX 1080ti https://gist.github.com/8enmann/931ec2a9dc45fde871d2139a7d1f2d78