I’ve had this problem on a couple of HPC clusters (where the system libraries are relatively old). When trying to install/precompile Plots.jl, there’s an error because the system-provided libz.so is not version 1.2.9 (see error message below). Jullia’s packages include a version of libz.so (which I …

Linking error (?) with libz.so when precompiling Plots.jl

giordano November 3, 2021, 5:01pm 2

My educated guess is that you have the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to some value which is messing up with julia. Try to start Julia with

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" julia

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