diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index ee702f83..c29fe1d2 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -273,7 +273,6 @@ message(STATUS "*** Looking for external libraries")
 ## Find LAPACK and BLAS libraries, or their optimised versions
 ##
 
-set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake_aux/Modules/")
 
 if(APPLE)
   message(STATUS "Detected macOS")
@@ -344,11 +343,16 @@ else()
     set(FlexiBLAS_FOUND false)
   endif()
   
+  if(0)
   include(ARMA_FindMKL)
   include(ARMA_FindOpenBLAS)
   include(ARMA_FindATLAS)     # TODO: remove support for ATLAS in next major version
   include(ARMA_FindBLAS)
   include(ARMA_FindLAPACK)
+  else()
+    find_package(BLAS REQUIRED)
+    find_package(LAPACK REQUIRED)
+  endif()
   
   message(STATUS "FlexiBLAS_FOUND = ${FlexiBLAS_FOUND}" )
   message(STATUS "      MKL_FOUND = ${MKL_FOUND}"       )
@@ -464,7 +468,6 @@ else()
 endif()
 
 
-include(ARMA_FindARPACK)
 message(STATUS "ARPACK_FOUND = ${ARPACK_FOUND}")
 
 if(ARPACK_FOUND)
@@ -472,7 +475,6 @@ if(ARPACK_FOUND)
   set(ARMA_LIBS ${ARMA_LIBS} ${ARPACK_LIBRARY})
 endif()
 
-include(ARMA_FindSuperLU)
 message(STATUS "SuperLU_FOUND = ${SuperLU_FOUND}")
 
 if(SuperLU_FOUND)
