Michael Hannon wrote:
> Hi, folks.  I'm trying to get numpy and scipy installed on a 64-bit, SL5
> system.  I installed numpy from the tar ball, and that seemed to go OK,
> but when I tried to install scipy, there was a complaint, evidently from
> numpy, that blas and lapack could not be found.  I've installed all of
> the blas, blas-devel, lapack, and lapack-devel packages.  I guess the
> problem is to make numpy and scipy look in /usr/lib64, but I haven't
> figured out how to do that yet.
>
> If you have suggestions, please pass 'em along to me.
>
> Thanks.
>
> 					- Mike

Mike,

Add /usr/lib64 to /etc/ld.so.conf (order matters here if it is an issue, 
I think).
Then run 'ldconfig' to update the cache.  See if that helps at all.

Cheers,
Mark

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