# Fortran and lapack

**URL:** <https://community.freefem.org/t/fortran-and-lapack/2469>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [May 17, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/fortran-and-lapack/2469 "2023-05-17T12:13:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![marchywka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@marchywka](https://community.freefem.org/u/marchywka)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/fortran-and-lapack/2469/1 "2023-05-17T12:13:04Z")

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I had a problem with fortran libraries for both R and FF when moving to  
Ubuntu 20. It looks like my FF now works by coping the old liblapack.  
However, there does seem to be an issue with R not sure of relevance here,

[https://blog.r-project.org/2019/05/15/gfortran-issues-with-lapack/](https://blog.r-project.org/2019/05/15/gfortran-issues-with-lapack/)

fwiw.