Installing HTSeq on CentOS 5.4

Installing lapack, blas and atlas on CentOS 5

1. Installing lapack and atlas on CentOS 5.4 is very simple if you have enabled EPEL and RPMForge on CentOS.

For how to enable this repositories, go to http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories

$ sudo yum install atlas.x86_64 lapack.x86_64

2. Install numpy and scipy make sure you use the correct pip tool

$ sudo pip2.7 install numpy

Before installing Scipy do the followings to prevent the failure:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/liblapack.so.3.0.3 /usr/lib64/liblapack.so

$ sudo ln –s /usr/lib64/liblapack.so.3.0.3 /usr/lib64/liblapack.so

$ sudo ln –s /usr/lib64/libblas.so.3.0.3 /usr/lib64/libblas.so

then do the installation

$ sudo pip2.7 install scipy

3. Install HTSeq

$ sudo pip2.7 install HTSeq

 Test installation:

$ python2.7

>>>import HTSeq