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motiur
motiur

Reputation: 1680

Octave 4.2.1 octave-gui : cannot find libgfortran.so.3

I am currently having an issue with Octave install in Archlinux. I am not able to load the current version of Octave 4.2.1 in Arch. It shows the following message - 

/usr/lib/octave/4.2.1/exec/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/octave-gui: error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This problem with libgfortran.so.3 is not rare. Here are two similar problems happening in R 1 and 2. If somebody using Octave on Archlinux came across this issue, can you share how to resolve it. Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 601

Answers (2)

fala
fala

Reputation: 125

I got this issue because I installed earlier additionally openblas-lapack from AUR for better octave matrix multiplication performance. Updating openblas-lapack to newest version in AUR did the trick for me.

Upvotes: 0

Vladimir F Героям слава
Vladimir F Героям слава

Reputation: 60058

From the comments it became apparent that the solution from the referenced question R v3.4.0-2 unable to find libgfortran.so.3 on Arch needs to be appended, because the way the older GCC versions will be typically installed in Arch Linux is in a different path.

So, one must find, where the older version is installed, like

   /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/5.4.0/libgfortran.so.3

(depending on the exact GCC version)

and then add the version to LD_LIBRARY_PATH or make a symlik of the library from the above path to /usr/lib64/.

Upvotes: 1

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