mlpack installation on Ubuntu 12.04

mlpack is a C++ machine learning library, which is developed by the fundamental algorithmic and statistical tools laboratory (FASTLab) at Georgia Tech. Machine learning methods implemented in mlpack are following:

• Density Estimation Trees - mlpack::det::DTree
• Euclidean Minimum Spanning Trees - mlpack::emst::DualTreeBoruvka
• Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) - mlpack::gmm::GMM
• Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) - mlpack::hmm::HMM
• Kernel PCA - mlpack::kpca::KernelPCA
• K-Means Clustering - mlpack::kmeans::KMeans
• Least-Angle Regression (LARS/LASSO) - mlpack::regression::LARS
• Local Coordinate Coding - mlpack::lcc::LocalCoordinateCoding
• Locality-Sensitive Hashing - mlpack::neighbor::LSHSearch
• Naive Bayes Classifier - mlpack::naive_bayes::NaiveBayesClassifier
• Neighborhood Components Analysis (NCA) - mlpack::nca::NCA
• Principal Components Analysis (PCA) - mlpack::pca::PCA
• RADICAL (ICA) - mlpack::radical::Radical
• Simple Least-Squares Linear Regression - mlpack::regression::LinearRegression
• Sparse Coding - mlpack::sparse_coding::SparseCoding
• Tree-based neighbor search (AllkNN, AllkFN) - mlpack::neighbor::NeighborSearch
• Tree-based range search - mlpack::range::RangeSearch

mlpack requires

• BLAS
• LAPACK
• Armadillo >= 3.6.0
• LibXm2 >= 2.6.0
• Boost (program_options, math_c99, unit_test_framework, rando

0. Prerequisities
0.1. BLAS

1. sudo apt-get install libblas-dev

0.2. LAPACK
Armadillo requires LAPACK to be compiled with gfortran.
#Lapack with gfortran

1. wget http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lapack-3.5.0.tgz
2. tar xzf lapack-3.5.0.tgz
3. cd lapack-3.5.0/
4. cmake-gui .
5. # set CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER = /usr/bin/gfortran for Armadillo
6. # set CMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS = -fPIC
7. make
8. sudo make install

0.3 Armadillo >= 3.6.0 (with LAPACK support)

1. wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/arma/armadillo-3.930.2.tar.gz
2. tar xzf armadillo-3.930.2.tar.gz
3. cd armadillo-3.930.2
4. cmake-gui .
5. make
6. sudo make install

0.4 LibXML2 >= 2.6.0

1. sudo apt-get -yV install libxml2-dev

1. MLpack

1. sudo apt-get -yV install txt2man
2. wget http://www.mlpack.org/files/mlpack-1.0.7.tar.gz
3. tar xzf mlpack-1.0.7.tar.gz
4. mkdir mlpack-1.0.7-build
5. cd mlpack-1.0.7-build
6. cmake-gui ../mlpack-1.0.7
7. make
8. sudo make install
9. sudo ldconfig