/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack

Question

I am seeking help for installation in ubuntu 14.04. I am installing a package in my pc. They have their makefiles. I have to run make.

When I did I found error like.

Answer 1

My error was like this:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran

I solved the problem following this post in here

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/libgfortran.so /usr/lib/libgfortran.so

N.B. I know this is an old post. But I spent a lot of time to solve this and in the end, it was very simple. I hope others having the same problem can solve this very quickly.