Installing MeTA on Ubuntu 14.04

install.sh

# Installing MeTA for Coursera MooC - Text Mining and Analytics by ChengXiang Zhai from Illinois University

# this might take a while
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

# add the ppa for cmake
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:george-edison55/cmake-3.x
sudo apt-get update

# install dependencies
sudo apt-get install cmake libicu-dev git g++

git clone https://github.com/meta-toolkit/meta.git
cd meta/
git reset --hard v1.3.6

# set up submodules
git submodule update --init --recursive

# set up a build directory
mkdir build && cd build && cp ../config.toml .

# configure and build the project
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make

# test to see if everything was fine
ctest --output-on-failure