On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Mark Stodola <stod...@pelletron.com> wrote: > On 02/05/2013 11:51 AM, Alan McKay wrote: >> >> I see LAPACK 3.0 when I do "yum search", but the latest version is 3.4.2 >> >> Is there any place to get the newer RPMs for SL 5? >> >> I've looked into building it but the instructions assume a knowledge >> of using the package. I'm just a lowly Sys Admin and want to build >> this for some scientists I support. >> >> thanks, >> -Alan >> >> > > Alan, > > I'm not familiar with LAPACK myself, but if you are unable to locate a repo > with newer versions (suggest checking EPEL), one thing to try would be > retrieving the srpm (source rpm) and modifying the spec file to use the > newer source package and rebuilding. You might run into dependency issues > that may or may not be trivial. > > Best Regards, > Mark
According to http://rpm.pbone.net, there isn't a more recent version for RHEL 5 or RHEL 6. Fedora 18 has lapack-3.4.1. It should be pretty straightforward to backport.
