Vowpal Wabbit Install Tutorial Steps

VW (vowpal wabbit) has two dependencies , Boost libtary and Libtools.

So before making install you need to get them. Otherwise you would get below error.

fatal error: boost/program_options.hpp: No such file or directory

./autogen.sh: 8: ./autogen.sh: libtoolize: not found

Download Boost from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/?source=dlp


libtoolize:

sudo apt-get install libtool


Lets do the VW install

Download the latest zip from github

https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit


# Unzip the code

unzip vowpal_wabbit-master.zip

# Move code to central place for install

sudo mv vowpal_wabbit-master /usr/local/

# Go to directory where code is

cd /usr/local/vowpal_wabbit-master

# Install VW
sudo make install

# Go to directory where it was installed
cd /usr/local/bin/

# Change permissions so that all can use vw
sudo chmod 755 vw

Check vowpal wabbit install success by

Running vw command from command prompt

Done