ncl: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.10: version `libssl.so.10' not found (required by ncl)

Question

This is in reference to running the WRF model in my system. I am trying to run the file plotgrids.ncl to ensure that the domain is in the right location before running geogrid.exe . Running the following command in my terminal(ubuntu) ncl util/plotgrids.ncl gives me the following error:

ncl: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.10: version 'libssl.so.10' not found (required by ncl) ncl: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.10: version 'libcrypto.so.10' not found (required by ncl)

Answer 1

at one NCL 6.4.0 installation at Ubuntu 10.10 the solution was searching a compat-openssl10 package, as compat-openssl10-1.0.2j-9.fc26.x86_64.rpm turn it into a .deb package by doing this steps:

apt-get install libdpkg-perl
alien compat-openssl10-1.0.2j-9.fc26.x86_64.rpm
dpkg -i compat-openssl10_1.0.2j-10_amd64.deb

find / -name libssl.so.*

will now show it at /usr/lib/ libssl.so.10

NCL will still complain about GLIBC version at this case that was solved by editing

vi /etc/apt/sources.list
:%s/maverick/wily/g

apt-get update
apt-get install libc6

this still shows as 2.15 with

ldd --version

however now the test works with

ng4ex xy01n -clean

Answer 2

for Ubuntu 16 please check help given by NCL forum at mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/ncl-install/2017-November/thread.html as resumed here:

http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html used Python 3.6 Linux 64-bit (bash installer)

cd /home/user/Downloads/
chmod +x Miniconda2-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
./Miniconda2-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
conda -V

conda 4.3.30

http://ncl.ucar.edu/Download/conda.shtml

conda create -n ncl_stable -c conda-forge ncl=6.4.0 gsl
root@hostname:~# source activate ncl_stable
(ncl_stable) root@hostname:~# ncl -V

6.4.0

ng4ex xy05n -clean -W png

it works!

outside conda (ncl_stable)

ng4ex

The program 'ng4ex' is currently not installed. You can install it by:

sudo su
vi /etc/apt/sources.list

add at the end

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing non-free contrib main

exit editor

apt-get update
apt install libncarg-bin