diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/emacs/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/emacs/package.py
index 09eb05d5a76..caa264857e0 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/emacs/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/emacs/package.py
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ class Emacs(Package):
     #     GTK or other widget library
     #     libtiff, png, etc.
     # For now, we assume the system provides all that stuff.
+    # For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
+    #     sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev libxpm-dev libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev libgif-dev libpng12-dev
 
     def install(self, spec, prefix):
         configure('--prefix=%s' % prefix)
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/netlib-lapack/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/netlib-lapack/package.py
index fb6b99e27c3..741f4af4215 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/netlib-lapack/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/netlib-lapack/package.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ class NetlibLapack(Package):
     homepage = "http://www.netlib.org/lapack/"
     url      = "http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lapack-3.5.0.tgz"
 
+    version('3.6.0', 'f2f6c67134e851fe189bb3ca1fbb5101')
     version('3.5.0', 'b1d3e3e425b2e44a06760ff173104bdf')
     version('3.4.2', '61bf1a8a4469d4bdb7604f5897179478')
     version('3.4.1', '44c3869c38c8335c2b9c2a8bb276eb55')