HDFView Library Linking Error

[crispian.batstone]

Hi

I don’t know if it is poor form to continue a thread with my problem, apologies if so, but I seem to have the same issue with 3.1.2. I’ve downloaded HDFView-3.1.2-centos7_64.tar.gz, and extracted from the rpm within using rpm2cpio.

When loading up the included sample HDF4 file (lib/app/samples/misr_am1_metadata.hdf) it reports the same error, e.g.:

*** Unable to open file ‘/lib/app/samples/misr_am1_metadata.hdf’: HDF4 library linking error ***
*** java.io.IOException: Unsupported fileformat - /lib/app/samples/misr_am1_metadata.hdf ***

I have tried downloading the HDF4 binary hdf-4.2.15-linux-centos7-x86_64-shared.tar.gz and using its shared lib files in order to address the ‘not found’ libxdr issue explained in this thread:

Installing HDFView on Linux

If this is an ubuntu machine, HDF has an ubuntu 20.10 based release file. Send a message to help@hdfgroup.org. The error indicates a failure with the hdf4 library stack. Have you tried an hdf5 file to determine if it is only a hdf4 problem? Allen

but I still get the same error.

I’m working on RHEL7 (arch: x86_64)

Please could someone help?
Cris