On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Ole Streicher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Eduardo, > > Eduardo Lenz <[email protected]> writes: >> On Wednesday 22 April 2009 04:47:54 David Cournapeau wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Ole Streicher <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> > but scipy then fails: >>> > error: Lapack (http://www.netlib.org/lapack/) libraries not found. >>> > What is the reason for that? > >> try ATLAS instead. > > I did: > $ easy_install --prefix=/work/python/ atlas-0.27.0.tar.gz > $ ls -l /work/python/lib/python2.6/site-packages/atlas-0.27.0-py2.6.egg > -rw-r--r-- 1 os gr 98386 2009-04-22 14:05 > /work/python/lib/python2.6/site-packages/atlas-0.27.0-py2.6.egg
ATLAS is an optimized version of BLAS/LAPACK, and has nothing to do with python. You can't install it with easy_install, you need to build it by yourself. I would advise against using it unless you need fast linear algebra for big matrices. Building ATLAS is a pain, and is maybe the number one issue for newcomers who try to build numpy. You can always install it later if you want, David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
