This tutorial is an extension of Installing ALPS 2.0 from source on CentOS 5 The installation can apply on CentOS 6 as well. For this tutorial, we will be installing.

1. python 2.6 and python 2.6-devel (Assumed installed already)
2. python-setuptools and python-setuptools-devel (Assumed installed already)
3. blas and lapack
4. numpy and numpy-f2py and python-matplotlib
5. h5py,
6. scipy

I’m trying to refrain for installing as much by source compiling and rely on repository for this tutorial. As such the packages will be behind

Step 1: Install blas and lapack packages from CentOS Base Repositories

# yum install lapack* blas*

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 Package               Arch            Version              Repository     Size
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Installing:
 blas                  x86_64          3.2.1-4.el6          base          321 k
 blas-devel            x86_64          3.2.1-4.el6          base          133 k
 lapack                x86_64          3.2.1-4.el6          base          4.3 M
 lapack-devel          x86_64          3.2.1-4.el6          base          4.5 M
Transaction Summary
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Install       4 Package(s)

Total download size: 9.2 M
Installed size: 26 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y

Step 2: Install numpy numpy-f2py python-matplotlib

# yum install numpy numpy-f2py python-matplotlib

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 Package                  Arch          Version               Repository   Size
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Installing:
 numpy                    x86_64        1.3.0-6.2.el6         base        1.6 M
 numpy-f2py               x86_64        1.3.0-6.2.el6         base        430 k
 python-matplotlib        x86_64        0.99.1.2-1.el6        base        3.2 M

Transaction Summary
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Install       3 Package(s)

Total download size: 5.3 M
Installed size: 22 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y

Step 3: Install h5py

# yum install h5py

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 Package            Arch          Version                     Repository   Size
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Installing:
 h5py               x86_64        1.3.1-6.el6                 epel        650 k
Installing for dependencies:
 hdf5-mpich2        x86_64        1.8.5.patch1-7.el6          epel        1.4 M
 liblzf             x86_64        3.6-2.el6                   epel         20 k
 mpich2             x86_64        1.2.1-2.3.el6               base        3.7 M

Transaction Summary
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Install       4 Package(s)

Total download size: 5.7 M
Installed size: 17 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y

Step 4: Install scipy

# yum install scipy

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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
scipy x86_64 0.7.2-5.el6 epel 5.8 M
Installing for dependencies:
suitesparse x86_64 3.4.0-2.el6 epel 782 k

Transaction Summary
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Install 2 Package(s)

Total download size: 6.5 M
Installed size: 29 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y