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Peter Dalgaard P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Tue Apr 21 16:28:00 CEST 2009


Bala subramanian wrote:
> Hi,
> I tried to install from four different mirrors. The result is the same. I
> dnt understand what the following error means.
> /usr/lib/R/library/ncdf/libs/ncdf.so: cannot restore segment prot after
> reloc: Permission denied
> Error in library(ncdf) : .First.lib failed for 'ncdf'
> 
> I even tried to change the permission of ncdf.so but still i am not able to
> load the library.


Nothing to do with the download. I think SElinux is getting in your way
(so your unstated system could be RedHat Enterprise Linux?).

Contact your sysadm or google for the error message.

(One of the hits suggests that you might need to run

chcon -t texrel_shlib_t ncdf.so

but, well, no warranties...)

> 
> Bala
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski <ld7631 at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Try to install from scratch from a different mirror.
>> Dimitri
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Bala subramanian
>> <bala.biophysics at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Yes ncdf needs netcdf, netcdf is already installed in my fedora10. I
>>> reinstalled ncdf with the following option
>>>> install.packages('ncdf',dep=TRUE)
>>>> library(ncdf)> library(ncdf)
>>> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>>>  unable to load shared library '/usr/lib/R/library/ncdf/libs/ncdf.so':
>>>  /usr/lib/R/library/ncdf/libs/ncdf.so: cannot restore segment prot after
>>> reloc: Permission denied
>>> Error in library(ncdf) : .First.lib failed for 'ncdf'
>>>
>>> Again the same error,
>>> Bala
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Bala subramanian
>>>> <bala.biophysics at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Dear Simon,
>>>>> I installed the ncdf package in the way you suggested but still i got
>> the
>>>>> same error i got before. I haves pasted below the installation log and
>>>>> errors.
>>>>>
>>>> Does ncdf depend on netcdf [1]? If so, perhaps it is missing, or is
>>>> not up-to-date. Also, it's a good habit to install.packages('ncdf',
>>>> dep=TRUE).
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Liviu
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/
>>>>
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