To install !BlackHat follow the following steps: - install the depedencies qd: install qd from the webpage http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/mpdist {{{ wget http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/mpdist/qd-2.3.13.tar.gz }}} and install the package. Use the configure options: {{{ --enable-shared }}} Make sure the shared libraries are installed. When building qd is looking for other compilers than g++ and is seems that depending on which it finds the shared library will not be supported, so I found that one sometimes had to specify t use g++ with the additional argument CXX=g++ (or another compiler which supports shared libraries) in the configure command line. 2. download the BlackHat tar ball, unzip and unpack: {{{ wget http:///whereever tar -xzf blackhat-1.0.0.tar.gz cd blackhat-1.0.0 }}} Configure, the options (in addition to the usual options such as --prefix) are the following: {{{ --with-QDpath=prefix try this for a non-standard install prefix of the QD library --enable-sherpaplugin compiles the BH sherpa plugin --enable-pythoninterface compiles the python interface }}} Install the data files. Download the files from /Where do we put them?/ and install them using the script that gets installed along with the library {{{ wget WHERE.EVER all.tar.gz dataInstall all.tar.gz }}}