GMT Julia and Ubuntu 18

[charperflow]

I know this is a well documented issue. I have followed all of the steps I could find, but I am still having a problem. My current steps to resolve this issue are shown below:

I am aware that installing GMT with Julia only adds the wrapper. I have downloaded GMT and followed the directions from its git repository: https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/blob/master/INSTALL.md.

GMT is installed and runs fine from my terminal. However whenever I try to use GMT in Julia I get the following message:

    You don't seem to have GMT installed and I don't install it automatically,
    so you will have to do it yourself.
    https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/blob/master/INSTALL.md#linux

This is a common problem where the solution is to show julia where my gmt library is. I did this by adding the following lines to my startup.jl:

    using Libdl
    push!(Libdl.DL_LOAD_PATH, "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmt.so.5")
    push!(Libdl.DL_LOAD_PATH, "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmt.so.5.4.3")

I added both paths because I was not sure which one was the correct library (running gmt --version says its version 5.4.3)

However, when I load GMT I get the same message as before. Furthermore when I do ] test GMT
I get the following error:

    You don't seem to have GMT installed and I don't install it automatically,
    so you will have to do it yourself.
    https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/blob/master/INSTALL.md#linux
    5.4.3
    ERROR: LoadError: UndefVarError: GMT_Get_Version not defined
    Stacktrace:
     [1] getproperty(::Module, ::Symbol) at ./Base.jl:26
     [2] top-level scope at /home/charper/.julia/packages/GMT/3tQ7w/test/runtests.jl:17
     [3] include(::String) at ./client.jl:439
     [4] top-level scope at none:6
    in expression starting at /home/charper/.julia/packages/GMT/3tQ7w/test/runtests.jl:12
    ERROR: Package GMT errored during testing

Here are the first 20 ish lines of runtest.jl

    using GMT
    using Test
    
    try
    	run(`gmt --version`)	# Will fail if GMT is not installed.
    	global got_it = true
    catch
    	@test 1 == 1			# Let tests pass for sake of not triggering a PkgEval failure
    	global got_it = false
    end
    
    if (got_it)					# Otherwise go straight to end
    
    	const dbg2 = 3			# Either 2 or 3. 3 to test the used kwargs
    	const dbg0 = 0			# With 0 prints only the non-consumed options. Set to -1 to ignore this Vd
    
    	GMT.GMT_Get_Version();
    	ma=[0];mi=[0];pa=[0];
    	GMT.GMT_Get_Version(ma,mi,pa);
    	API = GMT.GMT_Create_Session("GMT", 2, GMT.GMT_SESSION_NOEXIT + GMT.GMT_SESSION_EXTERNAL);
    	GMT.GMT_Get_Ctrl(API);

Not sure what to do next, any help is appreciated!

[joa-quim]

Sorry, this issue passed unnoticed to me since it was also in the forum. Issue solved, so I'm closing it.