[arch-general] netcdf problem after arch update

[Ilya Boka]

Of course you can downgrade package if you want.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/downgrading_packages

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Fulcrum <fulcrummike at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Is is possible to revert back to the previous version of netcdf? Since one
> of the tools (pyscan) is a portable script, I don't know how can I 'rebuild'
> it to work with the newer version of netcdf.
>
> Also, I would prefer it very much to avoid rebuilding the other tool
> (gasflow) because it takes a long time, and various other difficulties (It
> has many other dependencies which may cause other problems). It was a
> headache to install it in the first place.
>
>
>
> On 05/12/2016 12:25 AM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
>>
>> On 05/11/2016 12:12 PM, Fulcrum wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have two tools that use libnetcdf.so.7. They were working fine
>>> earlier. I updated Arch using the 'pacman -Syy' and 'pacman -Su'. But
>>> after the update, both the tools are giving errors:
>>>
>>> Tool1 (gasflow) error:
>>> /home/foxtrot/project/gasflow-3.0/bin/xgf2: error while loading shared
>>> libraries: libnetcdf.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file
>>> or directory
>>>
>>> Toos2 (pyscan) error:
>>> ImportError: libnetcdf.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such
>>> file or directory
>>
>>
>> For future reference:
>>
>> [eschwartz at arch ~]$ pacman -Fsx 'libnetcdf\.so'
>> extra/netcdf 4.4.1rc1-1
>>     usr/lib/libnetcdf.so
>>     usr/lib/libnetcdf.so.12
>>     usr/lib/libnetcdf.so.12.0.0
>>
>>
>>
>> Rebuild your software against the latest version of netcdf. Since it
>> wasn't installed from the Arch Linux repositories, it is your
>> responsibility to update it and make sure it is properly rebuilt as
>> packages get updated.
>>
>