Installing Vowpal Wabbit Machine Learning Library on Ubuntu

Installing the prerequisites for Vowpal Wabbit 

sudo apt-get -y install build-essential
sudo apt-get -y install automake
sudo apt-get -y install autoconf
sudo apt-get -y install libxmu-dev
sudo apt-get -y install gcc
sudo apt-get -y install libpthread-stubs0-dev
sudo apt-get -y install libtool
sudo apt-get -y install libboost-program-options-dev
sudo apt-get -y install zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get -y install libc6
sudo apt-get -y install libgcc1
sudo apt-get -y install libstdc++6

Configure Environment

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib

Install vowpal_wabbit

Note: If git is not installed then first install it using command : sudo apt-get install git

git clone https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit.git
cd vowpal_wabbit
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install