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-SciPy (pronounced "Sigh Pie") is open-source software for mathematics,
+SciPy (pronounced "Sigh Pie") is open-source software for mathematics,
science, and engineering.
-The SciPy library is built to work with NumPy arrays, and provides many
-user-friendly and efficient numerical routines such as routines for numerical
-integration and optimization. Together, they run on all popular operating
-systems, are quick to install, and are free of charge. NumPy and SciPy are
-easy to use, but powerful enough to be depended upon by some of the world's
-leading scientists and engineers.
+The SciPy library is built to work with NumPy arrays, and provides many
+user-friendly and efficient numerical routines such as routines for
+numerical integration and optimization. Together, they run on all popular
+operating systems, are quick to install, and are free of charge. NumPy
+and SciPy are easy to use, but powerful enough to be depended upon by
+some of the world's leading scientists and engineers.
-This requires numpy, blas, and lapack. matplotlib and ipython are nice to
-have in connection with scipy, but scipy does not depend on them.
+This requires numpy, blas, and lapack. Optional dependency: umfpack.
+matplotlib and ipython are nice to have in connection with scipy, but
+scipy does not depend on them.
+
+NOTE: Presently, if you install umfpack and its dependencies before
+scipy, make sure there is a link to /usr/include/amd/amd.h from within
+/usr/include/umfpack, otherwise scipy will not build.