[SciPy-user] troubles installing Scipy on SUSE 10.1

[Nils Wagner]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:27:36 +0100
  Nicolas Chopin <nicolas.chopin at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>   Dear all,
> 
> I have troubles installing Scipy on my SUSE 10.1 box (a 
>standard i686
> DELL laptop).
> I spent a few hours trying to find a solution on the 
>internet, to no avail.
> 
> I assumed at first that BLAS and LAPACK were properly 
>installed, but it
> seems the corresponding SUSE packages are incomplete.
> (Maybe you can confirm this?).
> 
Please deinstall the SUSE packages blas/lapack.
They are incomplete.
I suggest that you build your blas/lapack
and (complete) ATLAS library.
Another issue is the fortran compiler that comes with
SUSE. I still recommend g77.

Nils

> Then I tried to install everything from source, 
>following the detailed
> tutorial of Steve Baum:
> http://pong.tamu.edu/tiki/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=6&postId=97
> but I get complicate error messages which I don't 
>understand.
> 
>For instance, when I try to import scipy:
> 
>>>> from numpy import *
>>>> from scipy import *
> import linsolve.umfpack -> failed: liblapack.so.3: 
>cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>  File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/linalg/__init__.py", 
>line
> 8, in ?
>    from basic import *
>  File 
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/linalg/basic.py",
> line 17, in ?
>    from flinalg import get_flinalg_funcs
>  File 
>"/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/linalg/flinalg.py",
> line 15, in ?
>    from numpy.distutils.misc_util import 
>PostponedException
> ImportError: cannot import name PostponedException
> 
> So I understand that liblapack.so.3 is missing, but how 
>do I get it? In
> the tutorial, there is only a reference to liblapack.a
> 
> I had also a few error messages during the compilation 
>of scipy,
> indicating python could not find various libraries, 
>including BLAS and
> LAPACK. I did install BLAS and LAPACK however, since I 
>followed the
> tutorial.
> 
> 
> I am not a developer, just a scientist who would like to 
>get rid of
> Matlab; so I am quite confused by all these error 
>messages, and I don't
> have a clue of what to do to fix the problem.
> On various forums, people mention some problems with too 
>recent versions
> of gcc or g77. Could that be one explanation?
> 
> Thank you very much in advance. If a solution is found, 
>I'd be happy to
> post it on my web site, to help people who may run in 
>similar difficulties.
> And thank you for working on Scipy, which seems a very 
>interesting piece
> of software I die to try out!
> 
> Cheers
> -- 
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