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

I took a look at the DarwinPorts package manager. It includes packages  
for Octave, SuiteSparse, ARPACK, slepc, etc.

I'd very much like to see someone contribute Fink packages for ARPACK  
and slepc, but if this is not of interest to you, you may be better  
off using DarwindPorts.

Ben