I am trying to setup torch on my local ubuntu 18.04 machine but so far i have been unsuccessful, any help to setup torch would be really really helpful. when i do torch.backends.cudnn.enabled it returns True but when i do torch.backends.cuda.is_built() it returns False and when i do torch.cuda.is_available() it returns a False.
How did you install PyTorch? Did you build it from source or installed the binaries?
Since the binaries ship with CUDA and cudnn, you would just need to install the NVIDIA driver.
Note that also nightly binaries are built, in case you need the latest version.
hey, I installed it by doing conda install pytorch torchvision cudatoolkit=10.1 -c pytorch
That looks alright.
Could you post the output log of this install command?
Maybe a wrong version was picked. 
Apparently the cpu version will be installed as shown by the binary name.
Which OS are you using at the moment?
operating system: ubuntu 18.04.3
Could you try to update conda via:
conda update conda
and retry the install command?