After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10, VNL 2008.10 will not start, because libg2c is missing. In earlier versions this library could just be installed from the Package Manager, but from 9.10 this is no longer possible.
The solution is to download the attached tar-file and manually install the required files in /usr/lib.
Installation instructions
1. Download and save the attachment in your home directory
2. Extract the tar-file:
cd $HOME
tar xzvf libg2c_32bit.tgz
The next step differs between 32/64-bit distros.
3: On 32-bit Ubuntu:
sudo mv libg2c.* /usr/lib
3: On 64-bit Ubuntu:
sudo mv libg2c.* /usr/lib32
After this, VNL 2008.10 should start.