Awhile back I posted about not being able to get the perspective effect working on my openSUSE 10.2 system. No one replied back to me. Probably because it didn't look like an easy fix or perhaps I'm the only opneSUSE user. Anyway, I stumbled across a post somewhere on the Internet and turned up a repo specifically for openSUSE 10.2 users with the required packages to get the perspective effect to work.

This is the error that I was getting when trying to use the perspective effect with python-numpy, blas, and lapack that was installed on my system:

File “”, line 1, in File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/__init__.py”, line 43, in import linalg File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/linalg/__init__.py”, line 4, in from linalg import * File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/linalg/linalg.py”, line 25, in from numpy.linalg import lapack_lite ImportError: /usr/lib/libblas.so.3: undefined symbol: _gfortran_st_write_done

Here’s the issue:

“This is certainly because of a mismatch the compiler used for numpy and blas/lapack. I checked the rpm you are using, and it looks like whereas blas and lapack are compiled with gfortran, python-numpy is compiled with g77. I do not use opensuse myself, but started a project to provide binaries for numpy/scipy for this distribution: most of the packages like blas and lapack are broken on this platform (I really wonder if there was any testing of those packages by the packagers).”

This was posted by a fellow name “David”. This guy has a repo with blas, lapack, and numpy specifically for openSUSE 10.2 users.

Here is his repository:

http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/ashigabou/openSUSE_10.2/

Anyway, I installed his packages and now perspective works in Inkacape v0.45-1. I don’t know who “David” is but he has been a life saver for me. I just wanted to pass along this information in case other opneSUSE users are having trouble.

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