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> Full Name: Manuel Chaves > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: Universidad de Costa Rica > Package Version: 5.6 > Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04 > Hardware: > Description of problem: > > I get this error message when I try to open IDV software. Not sure how > to solve it. > > Sorry, we don't have UBUNTU environment to reproduce this problem. It seems to me that some of the system library related to video card driver missing. IDV relies on the Java 3D and Java 3D requires the system openGL library. You may try to update the video card driver to see if that helps. Yuan > Full Name: Manuel Chaves > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: Universidad de Costa Rica > Package Version: 5.6 > Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04 > Hardware: > Description of problem: > > I get this error message when I try to open IDV software. Not sure how > to solve it. > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: BAH-919523 Department: Support IDV Priority: High Status: Closed =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.