R SIG Debian - May 2012 - GotoBLAS2 breaks lapack

Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd <at> debian.org> writes:
> One last follow-up.  Debian's Atlas maintainer has started to work in
the
> OpenGoto packaging.  There will be proper Goto packages now that the
license
> is better, but it may take a while. It took years to get Atlas packaged
> 'right' so don;t expect anything too soon.  The gotoblas2-helper
package is
> still useful for the 'here and now'.
Unfortunately it is broken :(

Link not found at ./getGotoBLAS2 line 83

On 9 May 2012 at 17:41, Sergei Petrov wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd <at> debian.org> writes:
| 
| > One last follow-up.  Debian's Atlas maintainer has started to work in
the
| > OpenGoto packaging.  There will be proper Goto packages now that the
license
| > is better, but it may take a while. It took years to get Atlas packaged
| > 'right' so don;t expect anything too soon.  The gotoblas2-helper
package is
| > still useful for the 'here and now'.
| 
| Unfortunately it is broken :(
| 
| Link not found at ./getGotoBLAS2 line 83

I recommend using the (already packaged) libopenblas-base / libopenblas-dev
package.  

In casual benchmarking it outperformed the gotoblas2 package it was
originally based on.

Dirk

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2012/5/9 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>:
> I never ever play by hand with update-alternatives to override (and I can
> simply install or remove as needed to get my preferred choice working), and
> guess what, nothing is borked on my system.
>
> I recommend you simply purge the related BLAS packages, install again and
> enjoy the (very well working) defaults.
Removing atlas* completely repaired lapack. Thank you!