Getting python Numba working on Ubuntu 14.10 or Fedora 21 with python 2.7

Question

Recently, I have had a frustrating time to get python Numba working on Ubuntu or Fedora Linux. The main problem has been with the compilation of llvmlite. What do I need to

Answer 1

Initially I didn't get it working with the comments here and then I found out: 1. meanwhile llvm 3.6 instead of 3.5 is needed and 2. for me the LLVM_CONFIG env variable doesn't work. So I installed numba like this:

sudo apt-get install zlib1g zlib1g-dev libedit-dev llvm-3.6 llvm-3.6-dev llvm-3.6-runtime llvm-3.6-tools
sudo pip install enum34 funcsigs
sudo mv /usr/bin/llvm-config /usr/bin/llvm-config_bak
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/llvm-config-3.6 /usr/bin/llvm-config
sudo pip install llvmlite
sudo pip install numba
sudo mv /usr/bin/llvm-config_bak /usr/bin/llvm-config

(Tried on Ubuntu 14.04.)