Install libxml2-python on ubuntu 14.04 by building libxml2 and libxslt1.1

install.sh

#!/usr/bin/env python

# update system
apt-get -y -qq --force-yes update

# install needed system deps
apt-get -y -qq --force-yes install \
    python-setuptools \
    build-essential \
    wget \
    python-dev \
    zlib1g-dev

# download libxml2 and libxslt1.1
mkdir /opt/src \
    && cd /opt/src \
    && wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.8.tar.gz \
    && wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxslt/libxslt-1.1.26.tar.gz \
    && tar -xzf libxml2-2.7.8.tar.gz \
    && cd /opt/src/libxml2-2.7.8 \
        && ./configure && make && make install \
    && cd /opt/src \
    && tar -xzf libxslt-1.1.26.tar.gz \
    && cd /opt/src/libxslt-1.1.26 \
        && ./configure && make && make install \
    && ldconfig -v

# install pip
easy_install pip

# install offending package
wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/python/libxml2-python-2.6.21.tar.gz
pip install libxml2-python-2.6.21.tar.gz

# install othe package that depends upon libxml2 and libxslt1.1
pip install lxml