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Continuing to install by hand to provide compiler flag to force correct fortran compiler, depending on what blas and lapack are linked against (try ldd /usr/lib/libblas.so). See SciPy's INSTALL.txt file for more information.
Download scipy-0.1014.1.tar.gz from http://www.scipy.org/
Extract scipy-0.14.0.tar.gz
Change directory to scipy-0.14.0
Execute python setup.py config_fc --fcompiler=gnu95 install
Leave and erase scipy-0.14.0
Test by starting up python and doing:
import scipy
scipy.test() (NOTE this segfaulted on rhel5-32.. hoping that's not a big deal)
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