<html><head><base href="x-msg://294/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Somesh,<div><br></div><div>As Daniel stated, you need to have the DAP library installed. </div><div><br></div><div>You can also try downloading a non-OPeNDAP version of NCL, if you don't need this capability.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/linux.shtml#SharedLibraries">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/linux.shtml#SharedLibraries</a></div><div><br></div><div>--Mary</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Sep 10, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Dr. Someshwar Das wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">Hello,<br><br>I am trying to run some of the utilities provided for WRF Data Assimilation tutorial (gen_be_global_evecs.ncl) on a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1284144467_0" style="cursor: pointer; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; ">PC Intel Core</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>2 Quad, having LINUX Fidora 9.0 with ifort & icc compilers. Details of the machine specifications are given at the end. I had installed pre-compiled binary of the NCAR graphics (ncl_ncarg-5.0.0.Linux_i686_opendap_gcc4.tar.gz). Further, I have installed the 'ncl' today using,<br><br>yum -y install ncl <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>I am getting a silly problem. I am not able to use the command 'ncl'. It gives the following error message:<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; ">ncl: error while loading shared libraries: libdap.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</span><br><br></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">However, I am able to generate plots based on the NCAR graphics using some of the other WRF tutorial utilities, such as Map_plot.exe, etc. I am also able to view the 'gmeta' file generated by the plot utilities by using 'idt'.<br><br>I shall appreciate your help to resolve the above error. Thank you.<br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "></span></font><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; "><br>Regards,<br>Somesh</span><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">=================================================<br>Machine specifications: PC<br>---------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; "></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad, Q6600, 2.4 GHz, 1066 BUS, 8 MB<br>Motherboard: Intel DG33FB, RAM 4 GB, HDD 400 GB (ID)<br>Graphics: Intel GMA 3100 With PCI Express X16 Slot<br>OS:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="il">LINUX</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fidora 9.0, i686/ IA-32<br>=================================================</span></p></div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>