Robert Kern wrote:
> sittner@lkb.ens.fr wrote:
>> Hello there,
>> I'm new here, so excuse me if the solution is trivial:
>> i have installed ATLAS and LAPACK on my ubuntu 7 dual core intel machine.
>> now, when i try to install numpy, it tells me it doesn't find these
>> libraries:
>>
>> "
>> $ python setup.py install
>> Running from numpy source directory.
>> F2PY Version 2_3816
>> blas_opt_info:
>> blas_mkl_info:
>>   libraries mkl,vml,guide not found in /usr/local/lib
>>   libraries mkl,vml,guide not found in /usr/lib
>>   NOT AVAILABLE
>>
>> atlas_blas_threads_info:
>> Setting PTATLAS=ATLAS
>>   libraries lapack,blas not found in /usr/local/lib/ATLAS/src/
>>   libraries lapack,blas not found in /usr/local/lib/ATLAS
>>   libraries lapack,blas not found in /usr/local/lib
>>   libraries lapack,blas not found in /usr/lib
>>   NOT AVAILABLE
>>
>> atlas_blas_info:
>>   libraries lapack,blas not found in /usr/local/lib/ATLAS/src/
>>   libraries lapack,blas not found in /usr/local/lib/ATLAS
>>   libraries lapack,blas not found in /usr/local/lib
>>   libraries lapack,blas not found in /usr/lib
>>   NOT AVAILABLE
>> ......"
>> I have installed ATLAS and lapack with no errors.
>> ATLAS is in usr/local/lib/ATLAS/:
>> $ ls /usr/local/lib/ATLAS
>> bin       doc          interfaces  Make.Linux_UNKNOWNSSE2_2   README  tune
>> CONFIG    include      lib         makes                     src
>> config.c  INSTALL.txt  Makefile    Make.top                  tst.o
>>
>> so, what seems to be the problem?
>
> You haven't actually installed ATLAS. You've just built it. Don't put the source
> in /usr/local/lib/ATLAS/. Put that somewhere else, like ~/src/ATLAS/. Follow the
> installation instructions in INSTALL.txt. Note this section:
>
> """
> There are two mandatory steps to ATLAS installation (config & build), as
> well as three optional steps (test, time, install) and these steps are
> described in detail below.  For the impatient, here is the basic outline:
> **************************************************
>    mkdir my_build_dir ; cd my_build_dir
>    /path/to/ATLAS/configure [flags]
>    make              ! tune and compile library
>    make check        ! perform sanity tests
>    make ptcheck      ! checks of threaded code for multiprocessor systems
>    make time         ! provide performance summary as % of clock rate
>    make install      ! Copy library and include files to other directories
> **************************************************
> """
>
Alternatively, if you are not familiar with compiling softwares (and
Atlas can be tricky to compile/install), just install the packages
provided by ubuntu: sudo apt-get install atlas3-sse2-dev
atlas3-base-dev, and it should be fine.