Error message: Unable to locate package libatlas3gf-base

Question:

I tried with the following commands to install scikit-learn package

sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev python-setuptools 
sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy 
sudo apt-get install libatlas-dev libatlas3gf-base

Got error message

Unable to locate package libatlas3gf-base
Asked By: June Wang

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Answers:

Ignore message, keep going with command

pip install --user --install-option="--prefix=" -U scikit-learn

‘Disabling all use of wheels due to the use of –build-options –install-options /global-options’. Takes forever to run setup.py install for scikit-learn, but finally installed.

Answered By: June Wang

Search for the package that is much the same of what you have at hand.

$ apt-cache search libatlas
libatlas-base-dev - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software, generic static
libatlas-cpp-0.6-3 - World Forge wire protocol library - runtime libs
libatlas-cpp-0.6-dev - World Forge wire protocol library - developer files
libatlas-cpp-0.6-tools - World Forge wire protocol library - tools
libatlas-cpp-doc - World Forge wire protocol library - documentation
libatlas-doc - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software, documentation
libatlas-ecmwf-0 - Numerical weather prediction and climate modelling library
libatlas-ecmwf-dev - Numerical weather prediction and climate modelling library - dev files
libatlas-ecmwf-utils - Numerical weather prediction and climate modelling library - utilities
libatlas-test - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software, test programs
libatlas3-base - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software, generic shared
libblas-test - Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3, testing programs
libblas64-test - Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3, testing programs (64bit-index)

Gives me libatlas3-base as the nearest name. Taking that, the container could be built. As the other answer says it, leaving it out worked as well. This is more to show how you could find out about it when facing other package errors.