Installing ARPACK on a Mac

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 13, 2008, at 4:23 AM, Boaz Ilan wrote:

> 	
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know how to install ARPACK on an Mac?
> I need eigs (sparse eigenvalue solver) from ARPACK.
> I have a Mac G5/Tiger with Xcode 2.5 (gcc-4.0).
> I used fink to compile octave 3.0.2.
>
> I downloaded ARPACK from octave-forge and edited ARmake.inc  
> accordingly.
> I did not change UTIL/second.f -- is that really necessary?
> 'make lib' executes fine and libarpack_OSX.a is created - so far so
> good :-)
> Now what do I need to do to get eigs?
>
> Boaz

Boaz,

There are some insructions for installing ARPACK on Mac OSX at the  
like below. I haven't tried to install arpack myself, but the info  
there should be helpful.

	http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~spk/macosx_install.html

I believe you are already using the Fink package manager, correct? So,  
a nice solution would be to create a local package for arpack. Please  
let me know if you are willing to give that a try. If so I can help  
you get started. Once you are successful it can be submitted to the  
Fink team to be included for the benefit of other Mac users.

Ben