[Kaldi-developers] Problems in installing Kaldi

[Ji He <jv...@uw...>]

Hi there,

I heard that Kaldi is becoming popular these days and I want to try it
myself. But I don't have access to root directory in my lab's machine, so I
try to install it on my local space (and setting file dependencies etc.). I
am not sure how to do this.

Basically when I ran the normal installation steps, I got errors in
./configure (in src/), it says:

On Linux: Checking for linear algebra header files ...
Using ATLAS as the linear algebra library.
Could not find libatlas.a in any of the obvious places... will try dynamic
libraries.
No libatlas.so in /usr/lib
No libatlas.so in /usr/lib/atlas
No libatlas.so in /usr/lib/atlas-sse2
No libatlas.so in /usr/lib/atlas-sse3
No libatlas.so in /usr/lib64
No libatlas.so in /usr/lib64/atlas
No libatlas.so in /usr/lib64/atlas-sse2
No libatlas.so in /usr/lib64/atlas-sse3
No libatlas.so in /usr/local/lib
No libatlas.so in /usr/local/lib/atlas
No libatlas.so in /usr/local/lib/atlas-sse2
No libatlas.so in /usr/local/lib/atlas-sse3
No libatlas.so in /usr/local/lib64
No libatlas.so in /usr/local/lib64/atlas
No libatlas.so in /usr/local/lib64/atlas-sse2
No libatlas.so in /usr/local/lib64/atlas-sse3
No libatlas.so in
/s1/jvking/temp/Kaldi/kaldi-trunk/src/../tools/ATLAS/build/install/lib/
No libatlas.so in /s1/jvking/temp/Kaldi/kaldi-trunk/tools/ATLAS/lib
Could not find libatlas.so in any of the obvious places.
** Failed to configure ATLAS lbiraries ***
**  ERROR   **
**Configure cannot proceed automatically, but by editing kaldi.mk
** you may be able to proceed (replace [somewhere] with a directory),
** or install the ATLAS package on your machine,
** or try going to ../tools and running install_atlas.sh, and running
** this script (configure) again.

I read how Kaldi is compiled and it seems I may need to edit the

ATLASINC = [somewhere]/include
ATLASLIBS = [somewhere]/liblapack.a [somewhere]/libcblas.a
[somewhere]/libatlas.a [somewhere]/libf77blas.a

lines in src/kaldi.mk, but I don't know where I should pointed it to. I
also tried running ./tools/install_atlas.sh but have no idea what I should
do after that step. I cannot find libatlas.a anywhere in my local
directory, i.e. kaldi-trunk. I look forward to your quick reply.

With regards,
HE Ji