Bash script that successfully installs the polyglot multilingual text (NLP) processing toolkit on a MacOSX computer with Python 2.7 and Anaconda.

polyglotOnMacOSXPython27.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Author:
# Linwood Creekmore
# email: valinvescap@gmail.com

# navigate to home directory; just for clean start
cd ~ &&

# exit out of whatever conda environment you are in
# start from root
source deactivate &&

# update conda
conda update conda -y &&

# create a new conda environment for test; python 3
conda create -n icutestenv2 python=2 --no-deps -y &&

# enter the test environment
source activate icutestenv2 &&

# install the icu library; must be version 54.1
conda install -c ccordoba12 icu=54.1 -y &&


# install notebook related libraries
conda install ipython jupyter notebook -y &&

# create your kernel
python -m ipykernel install --user &&

# clone pyicu
pip install pyicu &&
pip install pycld2 &&
pip install morfessor &&
pip install futures &&

# now install polyglot
pip install polyglot ;

# run a test of polyglot
# polyglot test from http://polyglot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
# python-in-bash-script concept from http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/184726/how-to-include-python-script-inside-a-bash-script
cat << EOF > pyscript.py &&

#!/usr/bin/python
import polyglot
from polyglot.text import Text, Word

text = Text("Bonjour, Mesdames.")
print("Language Detected: Code={}, Name={}\n".format(text.language.code, text.language.name))

EOF

chmod 755 pyscript.py &&

python ./pyscript.py &&

# if you made it to this line, print Success
echo "Successfully running polyglot with Python 2.7!!!"
rm ./pyscript.py &&

echo -n "Would you like to delete this environment [yes or no]:? "
read instruction

if [[ ("$instruction" = 'yes') || ("$instruction" = "y")]]; then
  source deactivate 
  conda env remove -n icutestenv2 -y &&
  cd ~ &&
  rm -rf pycld2 &&
  rm -rf pyicu &&
  echo "Successfully removed icutestenv2."
  exit 1
elif [[("$instruction" = "n" ) || ("$instruction" = "no")]]; then
  echo "You opted to keep the environment."
  source activate icutestenv2
  echo "Use 'source activate icutestenv2' to switch to the environment"
  
  
else
    echo "You opted to keep the environment."
    source activate icutestenv2
    echo "Use 'source activate icutestenv2' to switch to the environment"
    
    
  fi

source activate icutestenv2

This can likely be super simplified to:

# install the icu library; must be version 54.1
conda install -c ccordoba12 icu=54.1 -y &&


# install notebook related libraries
conda install ipykernel numpy scipy  -y &&

# create your kernel
python -m ipykernel install --user &&

# run easy_install of pyicu
# pip installs pyicu with no error, but easy_install does something different
easy_install pyicu &&

pip install morfessor &&
pip install pycld2 &&

# now install polyglot
pip install polyglot &&

python -c "from polyglot.text import Text; a=Text('Linwood Creekmore visited Washington,D.C.'); print(dir(a))"

The simplest way to install by far:

conda install -c conda-forge pyicu morfessor icu -y && pip install pycld2 polyglot