Step 1: install the METIS library:

1 ) Install cmake as described here:

http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/atrpms-testing-x86_64/cmake-2.8.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm.html,

For the lazy:

– Dowload the latest atrpms-repo rpm from

http://dl.atrpms.net/el6-x86_64/atrpms/stable/

– Install atrpms-repo rpm as an admin:

# sudo rpm -Uvh atrpms-repo*rpm

– Install cmake rpm package:

# yum --enablerepo=atrpms-testing install cmake

2) Install either the GNU make with

# yum install make

or the whole Development tools with

# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

3) Download METIS from http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/download and follow the instructions in the “install.txt” to actually install it:

– adjust the include.metix.h to adjust the length of ints and floats to better correspond to your architecture and wanted precision (32 or 64 bits)

-execute:

$ make config 
$ make 
# make install

Step 2: Install SuiteSparse:

1) Download the latest version from http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse/, untar it and cd into it

2) Modify the SuiteSparse_config.SuiteSparse_config.mk INSTALL_INCLUDE variable :

INSTALL_INCLUDE = /usr/local/include

3) Build and install it

$ make 
# make install

Step 3: Install the scikit.sparse:

1) Download the latest scikit.sparse from PiPy:

2) in setup.py edit the last statement so that it looks like this:

Extension("scikits.sparse.cholmod",
         ["scikits/sparse/cholmod.pyx"],
         libraries=["cholmod"],
         include_dirs=[np.get_include()].append("/usr/local/include"),
         library_dirs=["/usr/local/lib"],
),

Step 4:

Well, the scikit.sparse imports well at this point, but if we try to import scikits.sparse.cholmod, we have an Import error, where our egg/scikits/sparse/cholmod.so fails to recognize the amd_printf symbol….

Hmmm. Looks like there is still work to be done to get it all working correctly…