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 Carefully install **libblas & liblapack**. For example, on Ubuntu, it is necessary to do `sudo apt-get -y install libblas-dev liblapack-dev gfortran`. For MacOS, you most likely need to do `brew install gcc openblas lapack`.
 
-For better performance, we recommend to use the **MKL Intel library** that is available for instance in the Anaconda Python distribution.
+For better performance, we recommend to install the **MKL Intel library** (available for instance in the Anaconda Python distribution) before installing SPAMS.
 
 SPAMS for Python was tested on **Linux** and **MacOS**. It is **not available for Windows** at the moment. **For MacOS users**, the install setup detects if OpenMP is available on your system and enable/disable OpenMP support accordingly. For better performance, we recommend to install an **OpenMP-compatible compiler** on your system (e.g. gcc or llvm).