Note that many of these utilites also have command-line interfaces, so you don't need a full NIMS instance to use them. E.g., you can run our image reconstruction pipeline using nimsraw.py (See the help for nimsraw by running it with the -h flag.)
If you haven't already, create a virtualenv:
sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
cd /var/local/
virtualenv tg2env
source /var/local/tg2env/activate
Install Dependencies
sudo apt-get install libfftw3-3 libftw3-dev gfortan libatlas-base-dev octave
source /var/local/tg2env/activate
pip install scipy