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@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@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. >> >