Import Error and Undefined symbol: dgesv_ Error on installing CVXPY with PIP

Question

I crate a new virtual environment using "virtualenv -p python3 env-name" and then pip install cvxpy. All works fine. However, when I type the code "import cvxpy" I get the following error:

ImportError: "..../env-name/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ scs_direct.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so": undefined symbol: dgesv

I have tried directly installing cvxpy from source. It gives the same error. What am I missing?

Answer 1

Try using this for installation in the required virtual environment if using anaconda:

conda install -c conda-forge cvxpy