Download and extract the latest tarball and install the package:
wget http://github.com/alexksikes/SimSearch/tarball/master
tar xvzf "the tar ball"
cd "the tar ball"
python setup.py install
You will need SciPy for sparse matrix multiplications. To combine full text search with similarity search, you will need Sphinx and fSphinx.
Installing fSphinx and Sphinx is pretty straight forward. On linux (debian) to install scipy, you may need the following libraries:
sudo aptitude install libamd2.2.0 libblas3gf libc6 libgcc1 libgfortran3 liblapack3gf libumfpack5.4.0 libstdc++6 build-essential gfortran libatlas-base-dev python-all-dev
Finally you can install scipy:
pip install numpy pip install scipy