Installing scikit-learn on Ubuntu is easy and straightforward. You can install it either using apt-get install or pip.

Here is the command to install scikit-learn using apt-get install:

$ sudo apt-get install python-sklearn

We can install it using pip with the following command:

$ sudo pip install scikit-learn

After installing scikit-learn, we can test the installation with the following commands in Python Terminal:

>>> import sklearn 
>>> sklearn.__version__ 
'0.19.1' 

Congratulations, you have successfully set up scikit-learn! The next section will introduce you to SVM and its application in robotics.