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/...