On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 02/05/2013 11:51 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
>>
>> I see LAPACK 3.0 when I do "yum search", but the latest version is 3.4.2
>>
>> Is there any place to get the newer RPMs for SL 5?
>>
>> I've looked into building it but the instructions assume a knowledge
>> of using the package.  I'm just a lowly Sys Admin and want to build
>> this for some scientists I support.
>>
>> thanks,
>> -Alan
>>
>>
>
> Alan,
>
> I'm not familiar with LAPACK myself, but if you are unable to locate a repo
> with newer versions (suggest checking EPEL), one thing to try would be
> retrieving the srpm (source rpm) and modifying the spec file to use the
> newer source package and rebuilding.  You might run into dependency issues
> that may or may not be trivial.
>
> Best Regards,
> Mark

According to http://rpm.pbone.net, there isn't a more recent version
for RHEL 5 or RHEL 6.

Fedora 18 has lapack-3.4.1. It should be pretty straightforward to backport.