Installation

 

The instructions in the README file that will explain how to retrieve a compressed tar file and how to this file. A few options are available. One of these is to retrieve the file

      dist96.tar.Z

Then issue the instruction

      zcat dist96.tar.Z | tar -xvf -

This will automatically create a directory named ARPACK. This directory should have the following contents:

      BLAS
      DOCUMENTS
      EXAMPLES
      LAPACK
      README
      SRC
      UTIL
      Makefile
      ARmake.inc
      ARMAKES

Instructions on how to proceed are given in the ARPACK/README file. After minor modifications to the file makefile, issuing the   command make lib will compile all subroutines and create the archive libarpack_<PLATFORM>.a in the ARPACK directory. Here, <PLATFORM> denotes the environment where the ARPACK library is built. For example, if the make were done on a SUN Sparc4, the library would be archived in libarpack_SUN4.a.

Instructions in README explain how to proceed. Disk storage requirements for the directory structure shown above   is just under 5 Megabytes.