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I am trying find which directory path BLAS and LAPACK are installed on.

I tried:

$ type libblas-dev
bash: type: libblas-dev: not found

Then:

$ apt-cache policy libblas-dev
libblas-dev:
  Installed: 3.6.0-2ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.6.0-2ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.0-2ubuntu2 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

But the last code doesn't show where it is installed. Can anyone help with this?

The same is the case with LAPACK:

$ type liblapack3
bash: type: liblapack3: not found

and 

$ apt-cache policy liblapack3
liblapack3:
  Installed: 3.6.0-2ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.6.0-2ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.0-2ubuntu2 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The command:

$ dpkg -L liblapack3

gives:

/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/lapack
/usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3.6.0
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/liblapack3
/usr/share/doc/liblapack3/copyright
/usr/share/doc/liblapack3/testing_results.txt.gz
/usr/share/doc/liblapack3/README.gz
/usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3
/usr/share/doc/liblapack3/changelog.Debian.gz

But how do I know where the executable file is ? i.e. the install directory.

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    It's a library... there's no "executable file" AFAIK. Is your real question something like "How do I get xxx installer to find BLAS/LAPACK"?
    – steeldriver
    Commented Mar 17, 2017 at 16:10
  • Yes, I want cmake, for installing dealii graphics package, to include particlualy LAPACK, and therefore to find LAPACK by adding its path.
    – Brendan Darrer
    Commented Mar 17, 2017 at 16:18
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    Well, as you can see from the dpkg -L outputs, Linux doesn't install software to a single directory: instead, it installs files based on their function, according to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Typically, cmake should be able to locate the relevant header files and libraries based on the FindBLAS.cmake and FindLAPACK.cmake files that are provided by the cmake-data package.
    – steeldriver
    Commented Mar 17, 2017 at 17:43

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