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Dear Ladies and Gents,<br>
<br>
I have just trying to install NCL software onto a 64-bit linux system
running RHEL5. Since it fulfills the requirement of using the binary
distribution, the binary from the site was used. The installation was
successful. However whenever I tried to run the 'ncl' command, the
following error message proceeds:<br>
<br>
<big><b>/usr/local/ncl/bin/ncl: error while loading shared libraries:
libgfortran.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory<br>
<br>
</b>By reading the 'Trouble shooting" part of the web, it shows:<br>
<br>
</big><font color="#990000"><b>Special note for Linux systems</b></font>
<p><font color="#990000"><b>The default configuration file for Linux is
"LINUX". You need to
edit this file for i386, i686, and x86_64 systems. There
are several LINUX.<i>xxxx</i> sample configuration files
to help you modify this file for your purpose. Also, see the "README"
file in the "config" directory for more information.
</b></font></p>
<p><font color="#990000"><b>If you are using the "gcc" and "gfortran"
compilers to build NCL, then
you will need to include something like:
</b></font></p>
<pre><font color="#990000"><b>#define CtoFLibraries -lgfortran
</b></font></pre>
<font color="#990000"><b>in the $NCARG/config/LINUX file. You may also
need to indicate
the path to the gfortran library with the -L option:
</b></font>
<pre><font color="#990000"><b>#define CtoFLibraries -L/usr/local/lib -lgfortran
</b></font></pre>
<font color="#990000"><b>"/usr/local/lib" is just an example. You will
need to find
"libgfortran.so" or "libgfortran.a" on your system and use this path.
</b></font>
<p><b><font color="#990000">If you are using "gcc" and "g95" to compile
NCL, then you need to do
the same thing, except use "-lf95" in place of "-lgfortran".
Ditto for if you are using the Intel compilers "icc" and "ifort", you
may need "-lifcore".</font><br>
</b></p>
<p><b><br>
</b></p>
However, since I install with the binary distribution, I cannot find
anywhere that has 'config' in my sub-directories. Could you please
share some clue how I can go over this barrier on installation. <br>
<br>
Many thanks. <br>
<br>
ilt
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