Fixing numpy.distutils.system_info.NotFoundError: No lapack/blas resources found on Ubuntu or Travis

Note: If you are on Windows, you can not install scipy using pip! Follow this guide instead: https://www.scipy.org/install.html. This blog post is only for Linux-based systems!

When building some of my libraries on Travis, I encountered this error during

pip install numpy scipy --upgrade

numpy.distutils.system_info.NotFoundError: No lapack/blas resources

Solution

Install lapack and blas:

sudo apt-get -y install liblapack-dev libblas-dev

In most cases you will then get this error message:

error: library dfftpack has Fortran sources but no Fortran compiler found

Fix that by

sudo apt-get install -y gfortran

In Travis, you can do it like this in .travis.yml:

before_install:
    - sudo apt-get -y install liblapack-dev libblas-dev gfortran