Public bug reported:
Up-to-date Resolute Racoon.
New installation of metview, giving one of the examples a try, but it
immediately bombed...
$
$ metview -b metview/Getting\ Started/Europe\ lat-lon
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/event: error while loading shared libraries:
libatlas_ecmwf.so.0.40: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
metview: EXIT on ERROR (line 1), exit status 127, starting 'cleanup'
$ ldd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/event | grep -E 'not found|atlas'
libatlas_ecmwf.so.0.40 => not found
$ find /usr/lib -name 'libatlas_ecmwf*'
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatlas_ecmwf_f.so.0.45
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatlas_ecmwf_f.so.0d
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatlas_ecmwf_io.so.0d
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatlas_ecmwf_f.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatlas_ecmwf_io.so.0.45
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatlas_ecmwf_io.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatlas_ecmwf.so.0.45
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatlas_ecmwf.so.0
$ dpkg -l 'libatlas*' | cat
┌── Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
│┌─ Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
││┌ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
│││ Name Version Architecture Description
├┼┼─══════════════════════─════════════─════════════─══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
ii libatlas-ecmwf-0:amd64 0.45.0-3 amd64 Numerical weather
prediction and climate modelling library
un libatlas3-base <none> <none> (no description available)
$ apt-cache policy libatlas-ecmwf
N: Unable to locate package libatlas-ecmwf
$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="26.04"
VERSION="26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon)"
VERSION_CODENAME=resolute
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/";
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/";
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/";
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy";
UBUNTU_CODENAME=resolute
LOGO=ubuntu-logo
$ apt policy metview | cat
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in
scripts.
metview:
Installed: 5.25.0-1
Candidate: 5.25.0-1
Version table:
*** 5.25.0-1 500
500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 26.04
Package: metview 5.25.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 7.0.0-38.38-generic 7.0.14
Uname: Linux 7.0.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.34.1-0ubuntu0.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sun Oct 4 12:29:23 2026
InstallationDate: Installed on 2025-11-07 (331 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" - Release amd64 (20251007)
SourcePackage: metview
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to resolute on 2026-05-15 (142 days ago)
** Affects: metview (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug resolute wayland-session
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metview 5.25.0-1 on Ubuntu 26.04 fails to start: requires missing
libatlas_ecmwf.so.0.40
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