OpenBLAS: Symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libblas.so.3: undefined symbol: gotoblas

I’ve tried the solution of issue #1033, but that didn’t work. I’m using Ubuntu 16.04, I’ve installed OpenBLAS using apt-get.

sudo update-alternatives --set libblas.so.3 /usr/lib/openblas-base/libblas.so.3

My libblas.so.3 alternatives are,

sudo update-alternatives --list libblas.so.3
/usr/lib/atlas-base/atlas/libblas.so.3
/usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3
/usr/lib/openblas-base/libblas.so.3

I’ve also tried to install OpenBLAS from the source, it compiled well, but the problem still existed.

I get this error: <application_name>: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libblas.so.3: undefined symbol: gotoblas, whenever I try to run any program that uses OpenBLAS

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Hi, this morning I “apt-get install julia” on my Ubuntu 16.04. It automatically installed libopenblass-base and now, when I call R, I have the exact same message as yours. Before this update, R was working, and I was using blas through the atlas package.

Now, I’ve “apt-get remove libopenblas-base” and R, I mean blas, is back.

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ph-preux on Mar 28, 2017

Thank you so much!

I had libopenblas.so.0 in /usr/local/lib. That causes the error. I assume that I should remove the version of OpenBLAS I built from the source, since I had one from Ubuntu PPA.

adonese on Mar 5, 2017

I was trying to install qgis. For some reason, qgis installs its own version of openblas at usr/local/lib. I had to remove libopenblas.so.0 from that location. When I installed qgis, I got the same error again. So, I removed libopenblas.so.0 from /usr/local/lib again, and did apt-get install -f. And it solves the problem. I just want to that conflict because of me, or from qgis?

adonese on Mar 5, 2017

Hi, this morning I “apt-get install julia” on my Ubuntu 16.04. It automatically installed libopenblass-base and now, when I call R, I have the exact same message as yours. Before this update, R was working, and I was using blas through the atlas package.

Now, I’ve “apt-get remove libopenblas-base” and R, I mean blas, is back.

This one worked out for me…

sahilbandar on Sep 26, 2018