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openblas package

  1. Bug #1876598
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1876598

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Mike Miller (mtmiller) wrote :

I can understand how you might think these commands you have shown are related to the bug summary, but they are in fact separate known issues, and Octave is in fact linked with and is using the OpenBLAS library.

1. The "version -blas" command returns "unknown or reference BLAS" - This is a known issue due to changes in the way OpenBLAS is now packaged for Debian and Ubuntu, it is missing a certain symbol that Octave looks for to identify the version of the library. The text is misleading, because Octave is in fact loading OpenBLAS.

2. The "eig" command does not return - This seems to be a bug in the OpenBLAS library itself, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1870138 as well as the duplicates that are linked to that bug report.