From Adafruit: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-ft232h-breakout/linux-setup

install_libftdi.sh

#!/bin/bash

###############################################################################
# Installs "libftdi" and its dependancies for Ubuntu 12.04/14.0.4 variants of
# Linux.
#
# This is just a copy of the Adafruit script in their tutorial. Go check them
# out over here:
# https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-ft232h-breakout/linux-setup
###############################################################################

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential libusb-1.0-0-dev swig cmake python-dev libconfuse-dev libboost-all-dev
wget http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/download/libftdi1-1.2.tar.bz2
tar xvf libftdi1-1.2.tar.bz2
cd libftdi1-1.2
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr/" -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR="/usr/include/python2.7" -DPYTHON_LIBRARIES="/usr/lib/python2.7/" ../
make
sudo make install