[R] libRlapack.so not found

[Johannes Huesing]

Whenever I try to load the Matrix package, I get the following error
message:
libRlapack.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
A file with that name is indeed not on the hard disk.

I am using the R version which comes with Ubuntu Hardy Heron LTS. Here
is the output of R.Version():

R.Version()
$platform
[1] "i486-pc-linux-gnu"

$arch
[1] "i486"

$os
[1] "linux-gnu"

$system
[1] "i486, linux-gnu"

$status
[1] ""

$major
[1] "2"

$minor
[1] "7.2"

$year
[1] "2008"

$month
[1] "08"

$day
[1] "25"

$`svn rev`
[1] "46428"

$language
[1] "R"

$version.string
[1] "R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25)"

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