<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 Mario,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for the information.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I tested this on a virtual machine with Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark and was able to get NCL working after installing the following packages:</div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">sudo apt install libgfortran3 libgomp1 libfontconfig1 libxrender1</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The ncl_ncarg-6.4.0-Debian8.6_64bit_nodap_gnu492.tar.gz package should work in this situation; the “nodap” version is perfectly fine if you have no need for OPeNDAP support.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please let us know if installing those packages still does not fix the issue.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope this helps!</div><div class="">Kevin</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 9, 2018, at 11:28 AM, Mario Naranjo <<a href="mailto:naranjom@unm.edu" class="">naranjom@unm.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;" class=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Good morning Kevin,</span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">I am running Ubuntu Artful Ardvark, Architecture: x86_64, with gcc (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3.2) 7.2.0. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">I believe I used the "not OPeNDAP-enabled" version, ncl_ncarg-6.4.0-Debian8.6_</span><wbr class=""><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">64bit_nodap_gnu492.tar.gz . If this is the wrong version is it as simple as deleting the ~/ncl-6.4.0 dir and reinstalling the OPeNDAP-enabled version?</span></div><div id="Signature" class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Thanks,</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Mario</span></div></div></div></div><hr tabindex="-1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline-block; width: 862.390625px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kevin Hallock <<a href="mailto:hallock@ucar.edu" class="">hallock@ucar.edu</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, March 9, 2018 9:58:51 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mario Naranjo<br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ncl-install@ucar.edu" class="">ncl-install@ucar.edu</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [ncl-install] Please help visualizing data</font><div class=""> </div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Hi Mario,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Which Linux distribution are you running? Based on the information from your email, it looks like you might be on a 32-bit Linux system.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">How did you install NCL? Did you install one of the binary release tarballs from <a href="https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/dataset/ncl.640.dap/file.html" class="">this webpage</a>, and if so which one? If you are in fact on a 32-bit system, the only option on that page is "ncl_ncarg-6.4.0-Debian7.11_<b class="">32bit</b>_gnu472.tar.gz”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Kevin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 8, 2018, at 8:04 PM, Mario Naranjo via ncl-install <<a href="mailto:ncl-install@ucar.edu" class="">ncl-install@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="x_Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" class="" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols;"><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">Hello All,</span><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div id="x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols;"><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">I have recently begun working on my research using a program called PALM. They have a built in script that makes use of NCL to visualize the data output. I have made several unsuccessful attempts to make use of it and keep getting the error:</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></div><blockquote class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="">ncl: error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</span></div></blockquote><p class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"></p><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">I have followed the steps on your Download/linux.shtml page, with the following results:</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></div><blockquote class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><p class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"></p><div class="">input: locate libgfortran.so.3</div><div class="">output: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgfortran.so.3</div><div class=""> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgfortran.so.3.0.0</div><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">input: <span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;"><span class="">export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib</span></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">output: ncl: error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</div><div class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">input: <span class="">export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">output: <span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">ncl: error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.3: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;"></div></div><p class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"></p></blockquote><br class=""><p class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"></p><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Please help me figure out how to make use of NCL to visualize my data. The data is in an NetCDF file.</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div id="x_x_Signature" class=""><div id="x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" class="" style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols;">Best Regards,<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mario R. 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