Compiling NWCHEM on Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (not as administrator)

If you are using Centos 7, NWChem is available from the EPEL 7 RPMs.
To install

sudo yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum update
sudo yum install nwchem nwchem-openmpi