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 ## Eigen3
 Required by g2o (see below). Download and install instructions can be found at: http://eigen.tuxfamily.org. **Required at least 3.1.0**.
 
-## BLAS and LAPACK
-[BLAS](http://www.netlib.org/blas) and [LAPACK](http://www.netlib.org/lapack) libraries are requiered by g2o (see below). On ubuntu:
-```
-sudo apt-get install libblas-dev
-sudo apt-get install liblapack-dev
-```
-
 ## DBoW2 and g2o (Included in Thirdparty folder)
 We use modified versions of the [DBoW2](https://github.com/dorian3d/DBoW2) library to perform place recognition and [g2o](https://github.com/RainerKuemmerle/g2o) library to perform non-linear optimizations. Both modified libraries (which are BSD) are included in the *Thirdparty* folder.