This doesn’t look good. I haven’t tried getting NuPIC installed on Kubuntu in a long time. Can you try running the simple hotgym example without swarming?
> cd examples/opf/clients/hotgym/simple
> python hotgym.py
INFO:__main__:After 100 records, 1-step altMAPE=38.390240
INFO:__main__:After 200 records, 1-step altMAPE=29.214768
INFO:__main__:After 300 records, 1-step altMAPE=25.829702
INFO:__main__:After 400 records, 1-step altMAPE=24.262638
INFO:__main__:After 500 records, 1-step altMAPE=22.976900
INFO:__main__:After 600 records, 1-step altMAPE=22.890111
INFO:__main__:After 700 records, 1-step altMAPE=22.579927
INFO:__main__:After 800 records, 1-step altMAPE=22.859475
INFO:__main__:After 900 records, 1-step altMAPE=23.299378
INFO:__main__:After 1000 records, 1-step altMAPE=23.396538
If you get output like this, NuPIC is probably installed properly. There may still be a problem with swarming, however.