Install older version of gfortran
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
You can try to use the option -std described in the manual,
man gfortan
-std=std
Specify the standard to which the program is expected to conform,
which may be one of f95, f2003, f2008, gnu, or legacy. The default
value for std is gnu, which specifies a superset of the Fortran 95
standard that includes all of the extensions supported by GNU
Fortran, although warnings will be given for obsolete extensions
not recommended for use in new code. The legacy value is
equivalent but without the warnings for obsolete extensions, and
may be useful for old non-standard programs. The f95, f2003 and
f2008 values specify strict conformance to the Fortran 95, Fortran
2003 and Fortran 2008 standards, respectively; errors are given for
all extensions beyond the relevant language standard, and warnings
are given for the Fortran 77 features that are permitted but
obsolescent in later standards. -std=f2008ts allows the Fortran
2008 standard including the additions of the Technical
Specification (TS) 29113 on Further Interoperability of Fortran
with C and TS 18508 on Additional Parallel Features in Fortran.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS has long time support for 5 years, until April 2019. I tested in a persistent live system created from the iso file ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso with mkusb.
When I installed gfortran into this system, it was version 4.8.4
GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) 4.8.4
The following command line dialogue illustrated what I had and what I did. If you have no luck with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, you can try with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Maybe it works better with the software you want to compile.
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lsblk -fm
NAME FSTYPE LABEL MOUNTPOINT NAME SIZE OWNER GROUP MODE
sda sda 29.1G root disk brw-rw----
├─sda1 ntfs usbdata /media/ubuntu/usbdata ├─sda1 7G root disk brw-rw----
├─sda2 ├─sda2 1K root disk brw-rw----
├─sda3 vfat usbboot /media/ubuntu/usbboot ├─sda3 244M root disk brw-rw----
├─sda4 iso9660 Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS amd64 /cdrom ├─sda4 999.5M root disk brw-rw----
└─sda5 ext4 casper-rw └─sda5 20.9G root disk brw-rw----
sr0 sr0 1024M root cdrom brw-rw----
loop0 squashfs /rofs loop0 938.7M root disk brw-rw----
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/cow 21G 71M 20G 1% /
udev 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 384M 1.2M 383M 1% /run
/dev/sda4 981M 981M 0 100% /cdrom
/dev/loop0 939M 939M 0 100% /rofs
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /tmp
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1.9G 76K 1.9G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 56K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda5 21G 71M 20G 1% /media/ubuntu/casper-rw
/dev/sda3 241M 46M 196M 19% /media/ubuntu/usbboot
/dev/sda1 7.0G 37M 7.0G 1% /media/ubuntu/usbdata
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Release amd64 (20140722.2) trusty InRelease
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Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Release amd64 (20140722.2) trusty/restricted Translation-en
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security InRelease [65.9 kB]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease
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Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release.gpg
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Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release
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Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en
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Reading package lists... Done
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install gfortran
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
cpp-4.8 gcc-4.8 gcc-4.8-base gfortran-4.8 libasan0 libatomic1 libgcc-4.8-dev
libgfortran-4.8-dev libgfortran3 libgomp1 libitm1 libquadmath0 libstdc++6
libtsan0
Suggested packages:
gcc-4.8-locales gcc-4.8-multilib gcc-4.8-doc libgcc1-dbg libgomp1-dbg
libitm1-dbg libatomic1-dbg libasan0-dbg libtsan0-dbg libquadmath0-dbg
gfortran-multilib gfortran-doc gfortran-4.8-multilib gfortran-4.8-doc
libgfortran3-dbg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gfortran gfortran-4.8 libgfortran-4.8-dev libgfortran3
The following packages will be upgraded:
cpp-4.8 gcc-4.8 gcc-4.8-base libasan0 libatomic1 libgcc-4.8-dev libgomp1
libitm1 libquadmath0 libstdc++6 libtsan0
11 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 687 not upgraded.
Need to get 17.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 19.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
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Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main gcc-4.8 amd64 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3 [5,047 kB]
Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main cpp-4.8 amd64 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3 [4,595 kB]
Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main libgcc-4.8-dev amd64 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3 [1,688 kB]
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Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main libstdc++6 amd64 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3 [259 kB]
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Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main libgfortran-4.8-dev amd64 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3 [269 kB]
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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ gfortran --version
GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) 4.8.4
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Fortran comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of GNU Fortran
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ gfortran -dumpversion
4.8
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:51:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
Please notice that I have not tested what happens after updating & upgrading an installed system of 14.04 LTS.
Author by
DWK
Research fellow at the Simmons Center for Cancer Research (SCCR)
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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DWK over 1 year
I am using Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS and want to install
gfortranversion 5.3. When I use either of the inputs belowgfortran5.4 is installed, which is not compatible with the program I am trying to run.sudo apt-get install gfortran apt-get install csh gfortranI am trying to run the quantum mechanics software GAMESS, which as far as I know, needs specific modifications for each compiler. When I try to install GAMESS with gfortran 5.4, I get an output saying
unrecognized version of gfortran. I looked at the code and the newest supported version is 5.3.How could I install the older
gfortranversion 5.3? Also, would something like the following work to delete version 5.4 so there are no conflicts? Thanks!sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove gfortranFor clarification, I am not sure why gamess will not accept versions after 5.3 but I get too many errors to finish the instillation with version 5.4. Also, when I input
apt-cache policy gfortranI get the following output:gfortran: Installed: 4:5.3.1-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 4:5.3.1-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 4:5.3.1-1ubuntu1 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status-
Eliah Kagan over 6 yearsDoes GAMESS document why it needs gfortran 5.3?
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steeldriver over 6 yearsAFAIK the main xenial repository should provide gfortran-5.3.1 by default - do you have the toolchain-r PPA enabled by any chance? Please edit your question to include the output of
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Eliah Kagan over 6 years@steeldriver The gfortran package (at least on Xenial) doesn't actually provide the
gfortranexecutable. On my 16.04 systemgfortran -dumpversionshows5.4.0;/usr/bin/gfortranis a symlink togfortran-5and/usr/bin/gfortran-5is provided by the gfortran-5 package, which the gfortran package declares as a dependency. From launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-defaults I downloaded and unpacked launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/…. The/usr/bin/gfortranit provides is that symlink. -
Eliah Kagan over 6 years@DWK Can you show the errors? (You can use paste.ubuntu.com and include a link here, if they're too long to reasonably include in your post.)
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Eliah Kagan over 6 yearsI strongly suspect you may actually have the same version as the OP. What's the output of
gfortran -dumpversionandgfortran --versionon your system? -
sudodus over 6 years@EliahKagan, you are right. Those command lines produce the version 5.4.0. So the information produced byapt-cache policyis not correct. I will remove that part of my answer. -
DWK over 6 years@sudodus, thanks for the reply. If I understand your answer correctly, are you saying that the only way to get an older gfortran version is to remove ubuntu Xenial and install an older ubuntu version? This would be a shame because I have a lot of programs that have been configured for the 16.04 system.
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sudodus over 6 years@DWK, No, I am only saying that one way is to run Trusty (14.04 LTS) booted from a persistent live USB drive. I guess it would work in an installed Trusty system too (when fully up to date), but I have not tested it. -- Let us hope that someone else will show you a way to get an older version of the fortran compiler in Xenial (16.04 LTS). -- Does GAMESS explain why it needs gfortran 5.3? -- Did you try the option
-stdwith any of its possible parameters? -
Eliah Kagan over 6 years@DWK Did this work? Can you tell us what Fortran dialect you specified via
-stdthat made it work, if that's the method you used? Or did you end up using an older release of Ubuntu? (Or something else?) -
DWK over 6 yearsI ended up changing the code in GAMESS so that it thought it was looking for gfortran version 5.4 instead of 5.3. I was hoping that the changes between the two programs would be minor enough not to cause problems later on. So far I haven't seen any issues. Unfortunately, I still haven't found I way to install an older version of gfortran.
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Eliah Kagan over 6 years@DWK I recommend posting that solution--with a specific explanation of how to do it--as an additional answer. ...Do you still want to install an older version of
gfortran? This is possible, but it may be cumbersome because you may need to build it from source code, installed in its own prefix, and the build will take a while (and possibly take up a good bit of space) because you'll need to build more of GCC than just the gfortran frontend. (Then, software compiled with it may depend on shared libraries built and installed along with the compiler.)
