### test installation of open-dap enabled binary 
smcc@nakrasana:/data/Dropbox/dynamic_data/projects2012/visualization/ncl$ ng4ex gsun01n

NCAR Graphics NCL Example <gsun01n>

This example was set up to display the output to an
X11 window.

  Copying gsun01n.ncl

Running NCL...
ncl: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

ncl failed.

### check that openSSL is installed
smcc@nakrasana:/data/Dropbox/dynamic_data/projects2012/visualization/ncl$ sudo apt-get install openssl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
openssl is already the newest version.

### look for the missing library
smcc@nakrasana:/data/Dropbox/dynamic_data/projects2012/visualization/ncl$ locate libssl.so.0.9.8
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libssl.so.0.9.8
/opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8
/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/ssl/libssl.so.0.9.8
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libssl.so.0.9.8
/var/lib/dropbox/.dropbox-dist/libssl.so.0.9.8
smcc@nakrasana:/data/Dropbox/dynamic_data/projects2012/visualization/ncl$ 

### determine the shell
smcc@nakrasana:/data/Dropbox/dynamic_data/projects2012/visualization/ncl$ ps -p $$
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
 9300 pts/1    00:00:00 bash

### set the ld_library_path to a 32-bit library location 
smcc@nakrasana:/data/Dropbox/dynamic_data/projects2012/visualization/ncl$  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
smcc@nakrasana:/data/Dropbox/dynamic_data/projects2012/visualization/ncl$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu

### close terminal, open new terminal, check $LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable
smcc@nakrasana:~$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

smcc@nakrasana:~$ 
path is lost!

### add shell variables to end of ~/.bashrc
# settings for NCL smcc 5/20/2012
 export NCARG_ROOT=/usr/share
 export PATH=$NCARG_ROOT/bin:$PATH
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu

### close terminal, open new terminal, check $LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable
smcc@nakrasana:~$ echo $NCARG_ROOT
/usr/share
smcc@nakrasana:~$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
smcc@nakrasana:~$ 

### test the installation again
smcc@nakrasana:/data/Dropbox/dynamic_data/projects2012/visualization/ncl$ ng4ex gsun01n

NCAR Graphics NCL Example <gsun01n>


This example was set up to display the output to an
X11 window.

  Copying gsun01n.ncl

Running NCL...
ncl: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

ncl failed.

### suggests a problem with the architecture
smcc@nakrasana:/data/Dropbox/dynamic_data/projects2012/visualization/ncl$ uname -m
x86_64
smcc@nakrasana:/data/Dropbox/dynamic_data/projects2012/visualization/ncl$   gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3

I used the ncl_​ncarg-​6.​0.​0.​Linux_​Debian_​x86_​64_​gcc445.​tar.​gz binary.
Was this the wrong one?