<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Pavel,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m sorry for the delayed response.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The "ncl_ncarg-6.2.0.Linux_Debian7.4_x86_64_gcc472.tar” binary is about 5 years old at this point; it may work properly for your needs, but I would still strongly recommend using a newer version of NCL.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m not sure which build of NCL on our website (<a href="https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/dataset/ncl.662.dap/file.html" class="">https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/dataset/ncl.662.dap/file.html</a>) works best with Ubuntu 18.04, I think you might have the best experience installing NCL using conda: <a href="http://ncl.ucar.edu/Download/conda.shtml" class="">http://ncl.ucar.edu/Download/conda.shtml</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Compiling NCL from source is unfortunately a fairly complicated process, so in general we recommend that users install an existing build whether it’s from our website or via conda.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please let us know if you’re still having trouble getting NCL installed on your machine or if you really would prefer to compile from source code.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Kevin</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 5, 2019, at 3:16 AM, Berloff, Pavel S 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 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; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Dear Specialist,</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">(1) My new desktop runs Ubuntu 18.04, and the NCL version installed by our ICT people is</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">ncl_ncarg-6.2.0.Linux_Debian7.4_x86_64_gcc472.tar</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">I suspect it is not the right one, but I am not sure. What is your opinion?</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">(2) When I try to compile, I have problems with "iconv" library (I think I have installed it, but it is problematic; when I link it there are other error messages):<br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span class="">nca fstream.f<br class=""></span><div class="">gfortran -fPIC -fno-second-underscore -fno-range-check -fopenmp -O -w -frecord-marker=4 -O4 -o object fstream.f -L/usr/local/ncl-6.2.0/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -lncarg -lncarg_gks -lncarg_c -lX11 -lXext -lcairo -lfontconfig -lpixman-1 -lfreetype -lexpat -lpng -lz -liconv -lXrender -lbz2<br class=""></div><div class="">/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -liconv<br class=""></div><div class="">collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can you enlighten me, please, on what I should do with this library, and what is the best way to add it in?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many thanks in advance,</div><div class="">Pavel</div><div class=""><a href="http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~pberloff/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~pberloff/</a></div></div><br class=""></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">ncl-install mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-install" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-install</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>