#bash shell is assumed
#<localDirectory> is the same throughout the whole procedure and is the one you have write access to.

#Install a local copy of python
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.9/Python-2.7.9.tgz
tar xzf Python-2.7.9.tgz
cd Python-2.7.9
./configure --enable-shared
make altinstall prefix=<localDirectory> exec-prefix=<localDirectory>

#set PATH, PYTHONPATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
nano ~/.bash_profile
#copy:	export PATH=<localDirectory>/bin:$PATH
#	export PYTHONPATH=<localDirectory>/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH
#	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<localDirectory>/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
nano ~/.bashrc
#copy:	alias python="<localDirectory>/bin/python"
cd <localDirectory>/bin/
ln -s python2.7 python
exit (or reload .bash_profile, e.g. 'source ~/.bash_profile' or '. ~/.bash_profile')
#after reloading bash, check if the paths work, e.g. which python)

#install easy_install & pip
wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-15.0.tar.gz#md5=2a6b2901b6c265d682139345849cbf03 --no-check-certificate
tar xzvf setuptools-15.0.tar.gz
cd setuptools-15.0
python setup.py install --prefix=<localDirectory>
easy_install pip

#Install numpy, scipy and theano
LDFLAGS="-L<localDirectory>/lib -shared" pip install numpy scipy matplotlib ipython theano