in /usr/lib check if liblapack.so is there and create symbolic links using the following commands: ln -s liblapack.so liblapack.so.3 ln -s liblapack.so.3 liblapack.so.3.0.0 and install the libblas library (blas=Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) there are rpm available at http://rpmfind.net/ just search for libblas.so as root do: rpm -i blas-3.0-18.i386.rpm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 16 17:55 liblapack.so -> liblapack.so.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 16 17:54 liblapack.so.3 -> liblapack.so.3.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 bertoldi users 4M Feb 16 17:51 liblapack.so.3.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 16 17:58 libblas.so -> libblas.so.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 16 17:58 libblas.so.3 -> libblas.so.3.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 bertoldi users 335k Feb 16 17:56 libblas.so.3.0.0