I initially had some problems installing on my laptop, so decided to boot Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS, 3.13.0-32-generic from USB and work from there.
Download the linux-gpib package, unpack and build. Get python-setuptools
first for later Python bindings support.
wget --content-disposition --no-check-certificate https://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-gpib/files/linux-gpib%20for%203.x.x%20and%202.6.x%20kernels/3.2.20/linux-gpib-3.2.20.tar.gz/download