Installing SyntaxNet on ubuntu - Deep learning - tensorflow

1. Install Java8 (Java7(deprecated)
2. Install Brazel:

$ echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://storage.googleapis.com/bazel-apt stable jdk1.8" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bazel.list
$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/bazel-apt/doc/apt-key.pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install bazel

3. sudo apt-get install swig

4. sudo pip install -U protobuf==3.0.0b2

5. sudo pip install asciitree

6. sudo pip install numpy

Then you must have git installed : sudo apt-get install git

and then built and test

  git clone --recursive https://github.com/tensorflow/models.git
  cd models/syntaxnet/tensorflow
  ./configure
  cd ..
  bazel test syntaxnet/... util/utf8/...
  # On Mac, run the following:
  bazel test --linkopt=-headerpad_max_install_names \
    syntaxnet/... util/utf8/...