Installing BLAS and LAPACK packages

How to install BLAS & LAPACK in Ubuntu 14.04? When I am trying to install these packages with apt-get install BLAS:

Error occurred
Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

3 Answers

There's a typo in @Maythux's answer: there should be no e in liblapacke.

A more minimalist set of packages can be installed with:

sudo apt-get install libblas-dev liblapack-dev

Also, if you're installing these to get scipy to install with pip, it may not be the complete solution (I failed to use pip install scipy in an ARM architecture Ubuntu 14.04 system). I found success with apt-get install python-scipy, but it was an older version (0.13.3). If you need a newer version via pip, you may also need:

sudo apt-get install gfortran

I found this info on StackOverflow here

In my case, the solution is

sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev

In order to solve the administrator directory lock problem, search for processes.

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
sudo apt-get update

Then try the commands to install

sudo apt-get install libblas-dev checkinstall
sudo apt-get install libblas-doc checkinstall
sudo apt-get install liblapack-dev checkinstall
sudo apt-get install liblapack-doc checkinstall