I am trying to install HEREMS following the guide(https://earth.bsc.es/gitlab/es/hermesv3_gr/-/wikis/user_guide_how_to_install_conda), which has a dependency on ESMF. After installing ESMF via Conda, I encounter the error that it can’t find libnetcdff.so.7 when I attempting to run HEREMS

However, I have verified that the file libnetcdff.so.7 is present in my lib directory

Despite this, when I use ldd on libesmf_fullylinked.so, the libraries are still reported as “not found,” even though libnetcdf.so.18 and libnetcdff.so.7 are indeed present in my lib directory.

following is the bug report:

when I run HERMES with this command:

hermesv3_gr -c '/public/home/students2/mxy/HEREMES/hermesv3_gr-master/HERMES_IN/conf/hermes.conf'

It tells:

File "/public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ESMF/interface/loadESMF.py", line 127, in <module>
    _ESMF = ct.CDLL(os.path.join(libsdir,'libesmf_fullylinked.so'),
  File "/public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib/python3.8/ctypes/__init__.py", line 373, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: libnetcdff.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

when I check the l libesmf_fullylinked.so

ldd $CONDA_PREFIX/lib/libesmf_fullylinked.so

    linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffd275c7000)
    libmpifort.so.12 => /public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib/./libmpifort.so.12 (0x00002b88cbe93000)
    librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00002b88cd905000)
    libgfortran.so.4 => /public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib/./libgfortran.so.4 (0x00002b88cbf01000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00002b88cdb0d000)
    libnetcdff.so.7 => not found
    libnetcdf.so.18 => not found
    libmpicxx.so.12 => /public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib/./libmpicxx.so.12 (0x00002b88cc031000)
    libmpi.so.12 => /public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib/./libmpi.so.12 (0x00002b88cdd11000)
    libstdc++.so.6 => /public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib/./libstdc++.so.6 (0x00002b88ce036000)
    libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00002b88ce1aa000)
    libgomp.so.1 => /public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib/./libgomp.so.1 (0x00002b88ce4ac000)
    libgcc_s.so.1 => /public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib/./libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002b88cc051000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002b88ce4f0000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002b88ce70c000)
    libquadmath.so.0 => /public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib/././libquadmath.so.0 (0x00002b88cead9000)
    /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002b88cbe6f000)

My libs directory:

ls /public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib/libnetcdff*

/public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib/libnetcdff.settings
    /public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib/libnetcdff.so
    /public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib/libnetcdff.so.7
    /public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib/libnetcdff.so.7.0

Here are the steps I have tried to resolve the issue:

Editing the ESMF make file to adjust library paths.
Modifying environment variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH and ESMF_NETCDF_LIBPATH in .bashrc.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/public/home/students2/mxy/conda/envs/new_env/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Reinstalling both ESMF and NetCDF multiple times.(from https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/conda-package-handling/files)
None of these actions have resolved the issue.

Thank you for any assistance you can provide!