To load CLAPACK on a Linux machine: Get clapack.tgz from www.netlib.org/CLAPACK gunzip -c clapack.tgz | tar xvf - cp INSTALL/make.inc.LINUX make.inc make f2clib make blaslib (or get optimized version) make cp F2CLIBS/f2c.h (or SRC/f2c.h) and clapack.h (in CLAPACK home directory) to /usr/include (need superuser status) - be sure to change mode to 644