[ncl-install] problems with installing NCL on Ubuntu 11.10 x86-64 architecture

[Sam McClatchie]

Hello

I am having some problems installing pre-compiled binaries of NCL (both 
Open-DAP enabled and not enabled) on Ubuntu 11.10.

Here is my system information:
smc at nakrasana:/usr/local$   uname -m
x86_64
smc at nakrasana:/usr/local$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) 4.6.1

Following installation of either of these binaries:
ncl_ncarg-6.0.0.Linux_Debian_x86_64_gcc445.tar
ncl_ncarg-6.0.0.Linux_Debian_x86_64_nodap_gcc445.tar

and running ncl from here:
smc at nakrasana:/data/static_data/tarballs/ncl$ which ncl
/usr/local/bin/ncl

having added this line to my ~/.bashrc:
export NCARG_ROOT="/usr/local"

I get this error returned:
smc at nakrasana:/usr/local$ ncl
ncl: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: wrong ELF 
class: ELFCLASS32

The library is installed on my OS:
smc at nakrasana:~$ locate libssl.so.0.9.8
/home/smc/.dropbox-dist/libssl.so.0.9.8
/lib32/libssl.so.0.9.8
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8
/usr/lib32/libssl.so.0.9.8

and explicitly adding the LD_LIBRARY_PATH parameter to the library in my 
~/.bashrc does not fix the problem:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib32"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

The gcc version I am running corresponds to the nearest version in the 
binaries.

  Any suggestions as to how to solve this? I did have had NCL running 
fine on earlier versions of Ubuntu (10.10).

Best fishes

Sam

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Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA,
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La Jolla, CA 92037-1508, U.S.A.
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