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On May 27, 1:30 pm, "Axel Etzold" <AEtz... / gmx.de> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to get Jeff Mitchell's linalg package
> to work on my machine (OpenSuse 10.2 on i586).
> I installed the linalg-0.3.2-i686-linux-ruby18.tgz package,
> apparently successfully (that's what my computer told me),
>
> but when I try to actually use it, I get:
>
> >require "linalg"
>
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/lapack.so: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/lapack.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 - /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/lapack.so (LoadError)
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/linalg.rb:7
>         from test.rb:1:in `require'
>         from test.rb:1
>
> I also tried to compile the other linalg.tgz package from source,
> but there, the system misses f2c, and can't be told to find it in
> /usr/bin, or to compile with the flag --without-libf2c .
>
> Thank you for any help.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Axel
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