Steps to install the package on a fresh Ubuntu 14.04:

• Add the universe repositories for scipy (if they are not already enabled):

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get update

• Install necessary packages:

sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib

• On new Ubuntu systems you can install sklearn from the default repository:

sudo apt-get install python-sklearn

• download and install empca.py (Bailey 2012):

wget https://github.com/sbailey/empca/raw/master/empca.py \
    -O $HOME/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/empca.py

• Go in the directory where you extracted the code:

cd lc_predictor/

• Install the package globally:

python setup.py install

• OR Install the package locally:

python setup.py install --user

• Test it!

cd lc_predictor/bin/
python fit_lc.py

• Outputs

It creates some output pdfs in out_dir.

For example:

evince out_dir/spectra.py &