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 Install development tools and CMake: 
 
     sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake
+    
+**Note:** On older systems (eg. Ubuntu 14.04) you may run into compilation-issues with `cmake`. Therefore, install the following instead:
+
+    sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake3
 
 Make sure you have Python headers installed: