Re: [ncl-talk] NCL install problems

Rick, Mike,

I missed the part about using the Fedora installed (called 'yum'). I've
had good results with the NCAR Graphics but don't recall seeing an NCL
element before in the repositories.

I'm not likely to have much time this week (I'm actually in the NCL
tutorial at CG...) but I can try to look next week.

Mike, try installing the NCAR Graphics devel package, too, if there is
one readily available. I've little doubt it's needed to get NCL to work.

I'd really like to see a solid NCARG/NCL package for
RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux and Fedora, as well. I was really happy to
find NCARG in the repositories.

gerry

Rick Grubin wrote:
> Hi Mike
>
>> I tried to install NCARG/NCL on my Fedora Core 6 machine and the Make
>> procedure ended with a 'thumbs-up' saying that everything was
>> installed successfully, but I don't see an executable named NCL in my
>> $NCARG_ROOT/bin directory.
>
> As you note below, it sounds as though you installed NCAR Graphics/NCL
> via a FC6 installer. We (NCL Team) have no control over which version
> of the software you get, nor do we have control over where the install
> point is.
>
>> Finally, I noticed during the install that errors were popping up that
>> read something like "can't find -lhdf". I take this to mean that I
>> have not properly pre-installed the hdf libraries. I have installed
>> HDF (and NCARG 4.2.2) using the FC6 software installer but I don't
>> think that I can trust Fedora to put the libraries in a directory
>> accessible to other applications under normal circumstances.
>
> Not knowing how the FC6 installer works, or where it puts software, or
> if you can specify install points (I would think so), you'll need to
> know where the FC6 installer puts software libraries and header files.
>
>> 1) Are there any thoughts on the above?
>
> You do have two other choices:
>
> 1. Install a precompiled binary for your system, see:
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/index.shtml
>
>> 2) Is there a way to get at the ./Configure information before I
>> attempt to install NCL? This would allow me to ensure that the hdf
>> libraries (and others, like Vis5D+, etc.) even exist in the right
>> places.
>
> You can install from source, see:
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/index.shtml#BuildAndInstallFromSourceCode
>
> ----
> Rick Grubin NCAR/TDD/CISL/VETS
> Visualization + Enabling Technologies
> grubin_at_ucar.edu 303.497.1832
>
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