Instructions for Ubuntu 

The following commands were tested on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, but should work in other/future Ubuntu releases as well. 

Let's install the system packages needed by running the following command on the Terminal/console:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake python-dev python-numpy python-opengl libboost-all-dev zlib1g-dev libsdl2-dev libav-tools xorg-dev libjpeg-dev swig

This command will install the prerequisite system packages. Note that the -y flag will automatically say yes to confirm the installation of the package, without asking you to confirm manually. If you want to review the packages that are going to be installed for some reason, you may run the command without the flag.