Setup following tutorial
http://sampathweb.com/posts/blogging-made-easy.html

and 

http://www.damian.oquanta.info/posts/zen-themes-updated.html

Also had to set 

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

in ~/.bashrc

There seem to be issues with nikola > 7.6 and Jupyter server 4.5, and python > 2.7 in Anaconda

Working version information:

Nikola 7.6.0

Python 2.7.11 |Anaconda 4.0.0 (64-bit)| (default, Dec  6 2015, 18:08:32) 
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

IPython 4.1.2 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
?         -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help      -> Python's own help system.
object?   -> Details about 'object', use 'object??' for extra details.