# Problem installing NetCDF
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-installing-netcdf/59001
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [April 10, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-installing-netcdf/59001 "2021-04-10T18:11:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@meck](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/meck)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-installing-netcdf/59001/1 "2021-04-10T18:11:20Z")
What could be the cause for this?
```julia
(@v1.6) pkg> add NetCDF
Installing known registries into `~/.julia`
Added registry `General` to `~/.julia/registries/General`
Resolving package versions...
Installed DiskArrays ── v0.2.7
Installed HDF5_jll ──── v1.12.0+1
Installed NetCDF_jll ── v400.702.400+0
Installed OpenSSL_jll ─ v1.1.1+6
Installed JLLWrappers ─ v1.2.0
Installed Formatting ── v0.4.2
Installed NetCDF ────── v0.11.3
Downloaded artifact: OpenSSL
Downloaded artifact: NetCDF
Downloaded artifact: HDF5
Updating `~/.julia/environments/v1.6/Project.toml`
[30363a11] + NetCDF v0.11.3
Updating `~/.julia/environments/v1.6/Manifest.toml`
[3c3547ce] + DiskArrays v0.2.7
[59287772] + Formatting v0.4.2
[692b3bcd] + JLLWrappers v1.2.0
[30363a11] + NetCDF v0.11.3
[0234f1f7] + HDF5_jll v1.12.0+1
[7243133f] + NetCDF_jll v400.702.400+0
[458c3c95] + OpenSSL_jll v1.1.1+6
[0dad84c5] + ArgTools
[56f22d72] + Artifacts
[2a0f44e3] + Base64
[ade2ca70] + Dates
[f43a241f] + Downloads
[b77e0a4c] + InteractiveUtils
[b27032c2] + LibCURL
[76f85450] + LibGit2
[8f399da3] + Libdl
[56ddb016] + Logging
[d6f4376e] + Markdown
[ca575930] + NetworkOptions
[44cfe95a] + Pkg
[de0858da] + Printf
[3fa0cd96] + REPL
[9a3f8284] + Random
[ea8e919c] + SHA
[9e88b42a] + Serialization
[6462fe0b] + Sockets
[fa267f1f] + TOML
[a4e569a6] + Tar
[cf7118a7] + UUIDs
[4ec0a83e] + Unicode
[deac9b47] + LibCURL_jll
[29816b5a] + LibSSH2_jll
[c8ffd9c3] + MbedTLS_jll
[14a3606d] + MozillaCACerts_jll
[83775a58] + Zlib_jll
[8e850ede] + nghttp2_jll
[3f19e933] + p7zip_jll
Precompiling project...
Progress [========================================>] 10/10
✗ NetCDF
9 dependencies successfully precompiled in 6 seconds
1 dependency errored
```
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-installing-netcdf/59001/2 "2021-04-10T18:21:49Z")
If you run
```julia
using NetCDF
```
you can see the actual error message
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### Author:  [@meck](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/meck)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-installing-netcdf/59001/3 "2021-04-10T18:41:25Z")
```julia
julia> using NetCDF
[Info: Precompiling NetCDF [30363a11-5582-574a-97bb-aa9a979735b9]
ERROR: LoadError: InitError: could not load library "/home/meck/.julia/artifacts/0a7f440ba143b238cc3dd0def2956d34d76755f3/lib/libnetcdf.so"
libmbedcrypto.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Stacktrace:
[1] dlopen(s::String, flags::UInt32)
@ Base.Libc.Libdl ./libdl.jl:114
[2] macro expansion
@ ~/.julia/packages/JLLWrappers/WnWcZ/src/products/library_generators.jl:63 [inlined]
[3] __init__ ()
@ NetCDF_jll ~/.julia/packages/NetCDF_jll/xjKDT/src/wrappers/x86_64-linux-gnu.jl:14
[4] top-level scope (repeats 2 times)
@ none:1
during initialization of module NetCDF_jll
in expression starting at /home/meck/.julia/packages/NetCDF/QftOe/src/NetCDF.jl:1
ERROR: Failed to precompile NetCDF [30363a11-5582-574a-97bb-aa9a979735b9] to /home/meck/.julia/compiled/v1.6/NetCDF/jl_1SGMwi.
Stacktrace:
[1] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, internal_stderr::Base.TTY, internal_stdout::Base.TTY)
@ Base ./loading.jl:1360
```
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-installing-netcdf/59001/4 "2021-04-10T18:46:59Z")
So this is basically a duplicate of [Package used to work, after update to 1.6 it doesnt anymore](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/package-used-to-work-after-update-to-1-6-it-doesnt-anymore/58920), where I’m still waiting for you to answer to my question about how you installed Julia (or a `strace` log)
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### Author:  [@meck](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/meck)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-installing-netcdf/59001/5 "2021-04-10T18:49:26Z")
Ok sorry, I will close this then. I thought this would narrow down the issue.
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### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-installing-netcdf/59001/6 "2021-04-11T00:37:17Z")
@meck I recommend [https://github.com/Alexander-Barth/NCDatasets.jl](https://github.com/Alexander-Barth/NCDatasets.jl)