Install libvips in an Ubuntu 14:04 AWS EC2 instance. Adapted from https://gist.github.com/msurguy/b474b0b45825e07128f0 because I needed a newer version.

libvips_install.sh

#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -qy

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get install build-essential git pkg-config glib-2.0 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libfftw3-dev gettext libgtk2.0-dev python-dev liblcms1-dev liboil-dev libmagickwand-dev libopenexr-dev libcfitsio3-dev gobject-introspection flex bison libwebp-dev liborc-dev wget -qy

cd ~/
wget http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/current/vips-8.0.2.tar.gz
tar -xzvf vips-8.0.2.tar.gz
cd /vips-8.0.2
./configure && make && sudo make install

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:$VIPSHOME/lib/pkgconfig"
export PYTHONPATH="$VIPSHOME/lib/python2.7/site-packages"
export PATH="/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:$VIPSHOME:$PATH"