install_mapnik.sh

#!/bin/bash

# For use with ubuntu 14.04 LTS, might work for ubuntu 14.10 though ymmv

add-apt-repository ppa:mapnik/boost
apt-get update
apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-python-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev

apt-cache policy libboost-dev

apt-get install \
    libboost-filesystem-dev \
    libboost-program-options-dev \
    libboost-python-dev libboost-regex-dev \
    libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev

apt-get install \
    libicu-dev \
    python-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev \
    libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev \
    libjpeg-dev \
    libpng-dev \
    libproj-dev \
    libtiff-dev \
    libcairo2 libcairo2-dev python-cairo python-cairo-dev \
    libcairomm-1.0-1 libcairomm-1.0-dev \
    ttf-unifont ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra \
    git build-essential python-nose \
    libgdal1-dev python-gdal scons

apt-get install -y postgresql-9.3 postgresql-server-dev-9.3 postgresql-contrib-9.3 postgresql-9.3-postgis-2.1

apt-get install -y gdal-bin

git clone https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik mapnik-2.3.x -b 2.3.x

cd mapnik-2.3.x
./configure INPUT_PLUGINS=all
make
make install

Works for xubuntu 14.04 LTS