[SciPy-user] SuSE 10.1 installation problem

[Christian Kristukat]

Marian Jakubik wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm a SciPy newbie and have problem with installing it on SuSE 10.1.
> 
> I installed numpy-1.0rc1, then blas-3.0-926.i586.rpm &
> lapack-3.0-926.i586.rpm and then scipy-0.5.1...
> 
> I tried to run this very simple script:
> ...
> from scipy import *
> p = poly1d([3,4,5])
> print p
> ...
> 
> and I've got this error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "1.py", line 1, in ?
>     from scipy import *
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/signal/__init__.py", line
> 9, in ? from bsplines import * File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/signal/bsplines.py", line
> 3, in ? import scipy.special File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/special/__init__.py",
> line 10, in ? import orthogonal File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/special/orthogonal.py",
> line 67, in ? from scipy.linalg import eig 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 lapack import get_lapack_funcs File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/linalg/lapack.py", line
> 17, in ? from scipy.linalg import flapack
> ImportError: /usr/lib/libblas.so.3: undefined symbol: _gfortran_filename
> 
> I think the problem is in "from scipy import *" statement and is linked to blas & lapack...
> 

SuSE blas and lapack rpms are buggy.
You have to build them yourself.
Christian