<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Jerry,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I just tried installing the <a href="https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/dataset/ncl.640.dap/file.html" class="">Debian8.6 binary release of NCL 6.4.0</a> on an Ubuntu 17.10 virtual machine, and can confirm that I also saw the libgfortran error message.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After performing a minimal installation of Ubuntu 17.10, I had to manually install the following packages in order to get NCL to actually run:</div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">sudo apt install libxrender1 libfontconfig1 libgfortran3 libgomp1</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(Note: I believe libxrender1 and libfontconfig1 may be installed by default on a “desktop” installation of Ubuntu, but I tested this with a more minimal “server” installation)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is a brief <a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/linux.shtml#libgfortran" class="">Dealing with missing libgfortran issue</a> section in our installation instructions, but it’s a bit buried on our website and it could have a more concise description of the solution.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for letting us know that our documentation wasn’t entirely helpful in your situation; I’ll try to add some extra information to the page I linked above to hopefully help you and other users in the future.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kevin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 26, 2018, at 1:25 PM, Potter, Gerald Lee. (GSFC-606.2)[UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION] via ncl-install <<a href="mailto:ncl-install@ucar.edu" class="">ncl-install@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hello,<br class=""><br class="">I'm trying to install NCL on Ubuntu 17.10. I have downloaded the<br class="">binaries and installed it in /usr/local/ncl-6.4.0.<br class=""><br class="">I have set the path and when I run ncl I get:<br class=""><br class="">libgfortran.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<br class=""><br class="">Am I missing something? I don't see any mention of this in the<br class="">installation instructions.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class=""><br class="">Jerry<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Gerald (Jerry) Potter<br class="">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center<br class="">e-mail <a href="mailto:gerald.potter@nasa.gov" class="">gerald.potter@nasa.gov</a><br class="">Office 28-S5241<br class="">Phone 707-315-8314<br class="">Department GSFC:606.2<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">ncl-install mailing list<br class="">List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:<br class=""><a href="http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-install" class="">http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-install</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>