diff --git a/scripts/cmake_config_file_vmec2000.json b/scripts/cmake_config_file_vmec2000.json
index 4a7797d..f962a75 100644
--- a/scripts/cmake_config_file_vmec2000.json
+++ b/scripts/cmake_config_file_vmec2000.json
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
            "-DNETCDF_INC_PATH=/usr/include",
            "-DNETCDF_LIB_PATH=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu",
            "-DBLA_VENDOR=OpenBLAS",
-           "-DSCALAPACK_PREFIX={CODE}/external/scalapack/build",
+           "-DSCALAPACK_LIB_NAME=libscalapack-openmpi.so",
            "-DF2PY_EXECUTABLE={CODE}/.venv/bin/f2py"]
 }
diff --git a/scripts/setup_scalapack.sh b/scripts/setup_scalapack.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index de53e67..0000000
--- a/scripts/setup_scalapack.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-if [ ! -d "scalapack" ] ; then
-    echo "Fetching and building ScaLapack..."
-    git clone https://github.com/Reference-ScaLAPACK/scalapack.git
-fi
-pushd scalapack
-cmake -S. -Bbuild -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS=-fPIC -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-fPIC
-pushd build
-make -j$(nproc)
-popd
-popd
diff --git a/scripts/setup_vmec2000.sh b/scripts/setup_vmec2000.sh
index 18afe57..a2a2bf2 100755
--- a/scripts/setup_vmec2000.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup_vmec2000.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ fi
 pushd VMEC2000
 cp $CODE/scripts/cmake_config_file_vmec2000.json cmake_config_file.json
 sed -i "s|{CODE}|$CODE|g" cmake_config_file.json
-cmake -S. -Bbuild -GNinja -DNETCDF_INC_PATH=/usr/include -DSCALAPACK_PREFIX=$CODE/external/scalapack/build -DBLA_VENDOR=OpenBLAS
+cmake -S. -Bbuild -GNinja -DNETCDF_INC_PATH=/usr/include -DSCALAPACK_LIB_NAME=libscalapack-openmpi.so -DBLA_VENDOR=OpenBLAS
 pushd build
 ninja
 popd