Installing LAPACK on Linux Mint

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I relatively new to library usage (and by new I mean completely new). I'm able to get everything compiled (using gfortran), but I can't seem to get them into usable libraries to use in my programs, specifically for use in conjunction with LAPACK++.

How do i have a sucessful installation of LAPACK and BLAS to use with LAPACK++ so that I can use them as #include libraries on a Linux Mint box?