Installing liblapack without root permissions? (Trying to get Armadillo/Lapack/Blas working)

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I'm trying to install Armadillo (and thus also BLAS and LAPACK) on a linux server for which I do not have root permission. I have jumped through a few of the first hurdles, but I am getting an error:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack

This question addresses the same problem, with the solution being to install

  • liblapack-dev
  • liblapack3
  • libopenblas-base
  • libopenblas-dev

The problem is the only way I've found to do this online is by doing something like sudo-aptget install or yum install. Both are not allowed on the server I use. I can download binaries and install them locally - that is it.

My question is: how can I install these packages without the above permissions and get on my way to using Armadillo?

I'm using Centos linux, if it helps.

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1 Answers

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Since you do not have root permissions, the best way is to download and build LAPACK and BLAS. You can download the source code from netlib.

Description of installation instructions can be found here and here.

The basic steps are:

  • Unzip and tar the file.
  • Copy and edit the file LAPACK/make.inc.example to LAPACK/make.inc.
  • Edit the file LAPACK/Makefile
  • type make.

Similarly you can download and build BLAS.