This was done on a stock ubuntu 14.04 cloud install, but should work on any distro (although you'd need to tweak the package install part to use yum or whatever and appropriate package names)

Install needed OS packages:

• Install the packages needed for things to build

Oneliner:

apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl build-essential libx11-dev libxext-dev libpcap-dev zlib1g-dev libgdbm-dev