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I upgraded my notebook from Slackware-11.0 to -12.0 so libc, gcc, etc. are different. I've built ATLAS (and copied the *.a and *.so libraries to /usr/local/lib), then sucessfully built and installed NumPy-1.0.4. But, when I try 'python setup.py install' from the scipy-0.6.0 directory the attempt immediately fails: Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 53, in <module> setup_package() File "setup.py", line 28, in setup_package from numpy.distutils.core import setup File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/__init__.py", line 43, in <module> import linalg File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/linalg/__init__.py", line 4, in <module> from linalg import * File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/linalg/linalg.py", line 25, in <module> from numpy.linalg import lapack_lite ImportError: liblapack.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory liblapack.so is in both /usr/local/lib and ~/python/ATLAS/ATLAS-linux/lib/. What am I missing here? Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
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On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Rich Shepard wrote:
What am I missing here?
Found it: python was looking in /usr/lib, and not in /usr/local/lib. Softlinks fixed this problem. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
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