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I've recently installed Ubuntu 19.10 and tried to execute an application but got the following error message:

error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've searched previous posts and the solution to this problem was:

sudo apt-get install libgfortran3

However, when trying this, the following error message appeared:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package libgfortran3

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Vinny

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  • I had to manually install the libgfortran3 (6.4.0-17ubuntu1) and gcc-6-base (6.4.0-17ubuntu1) packages. It works fine now
    – Vinny
    Commented Nov 7, 2019 at 22:36

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It's good you got it working, but as of the time of this post I see different/newer versions for Ubuntu disco (19.04) 6.5.0-2ubuntu1 vs 6.4.0-17ubuntu1 for Ubuntu bionic (18.04). The version you have, Eoan Ermine (19.10), probably does not have it yet which is why you got the error doing sudo apt-get install libgfortran3.

You may also try using the libraries from 19.04 here https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/libgfortran3

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    Thanks for letting me know about the newer versions for Ubuntu disco, much appreciated!
    – Vinny
    Commented Nov 7, 2019 at 23:07

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