SHOGUN on Ubuntu 12.04

Question

What's the best way to get the latest SHOGUN / Python modular interface (http://www.shogun-toolbox.org) installed on 12.04? I tried from source without much luck (happy to post errors); Is it possible to install the Trusty Tahr package on 12.04? https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shogun/3.1.1-1

Answer 1

(I am the debian maintainer of this package).

You could try to

apt-get -b source shogun

but it will give you only the core libshogun library at this very moment. There is a python package on the way (in debian) but not yet accepted and not yet in ubuntu.

https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/python-shogun_3.1.1-1.html

So you are really best of installing from source. Shogun has buildbots running on ubuntu creating a python package. So you can just copy the settings from there:

https://travis-ci.org/shogun-toolbox/shogun/jobs/18605663

Answer 2

Following this posts here and this instruction i did the following that worked for me to install shogun directly into my conda env. Its not the most elegant way but worked out so far.

! Take care to have swig: ie. installed apt-get install swig ! I used anaconda and the shogun python infterface - so my cmake prefix was /home/user/anaconda/

You need cmake to build shogun:

SET UP CMAKE FIRST (skip if you have cmake > 3.1)

1. cd /path to your installation directory
2. workdir=$(pwd) #i.e. your home
3. Download and install cmake into your home:
4. wget http://www.cmake.org/files/v3.1/cmake-3.1.3.tar.gz
5. tar xzf cmake-3.1.3.tar.gz
6. cd cmake-3.1.3
7. cmake_dir=$workdir/cmake 5 ./configure --prefix=$cmake_dir
8. make -j 2
9. make install
10. Export cmake to your PATH so you can use it for shogun: export PATH=$cmake_dir/bin/:$PATH

Download and install shogun into anaconda env

1. wget ftp://shogun-toolbox.org/shogun/releases/3.1/sources/shogun-3.1.1.tar.bz2
2. tar jxf shogun-3.1.1.tar.bz2 3 cd shogun-3.1.1/
3. mkdir build
4. cd build
5. cmake -DPythonStatic=ON -DPythonModular=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/myusername/anaconda/envs/p27/ ..
6. make -j2 all #four processes takes a while
7. make install