Re: Running NCL on NCAR

Owando,

Ruan Tao is correct, it sounds like /usr/local is not the correct
location.

You need to set NCARG_ROOT to the directory of where you ran the "tar
-xvf" from.

--Mary

On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, RUAN Tao wrote:

> Hi Owando,
>
> I think the problem is your path to NCARG_ROOT is not correct...
>
> I guess the /usr/local is not likely to be the directory for ncarg
> tools. It should be something like /usr/local/ncl..... or
> /usr/local/ncarg.....
>
>> Hi Mary,
>> This doesnt work either, it gives error massage below,
>>
>> be1005en$ cp $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclex/gsun01n.ncl .
>> cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/lib/ncarg/nclex/gsun01n.ncl': No such file or
>> directory
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Mary Haley <haley_at_ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Owanda,
>>>
>>> In the future, please only post installation questions to
>>> ncl-install_at_ucar.edu.
>>>
>>> It looks like maybe you don't have "/bin/csh" installed.
>>>
>>> Can you try the following:
>>>
>>> cp $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclex/gsun/gsun01n.ncl .
>>> ncl gsun01n.ncl
>>>
>>> A window should pop up and you can click on it with your left mouse
>>> button to advance through the 5 frames of graphics.
>>>
>>> If this works, then I'm guessing the original problem is that you
>>> don't have "/bin/csh" on your system. This is needed in order to run
>>> "ng4ex".
>>>
>>> --Mary
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Owanda Otieno wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I am new in this field and therefore in need some BIG help, I want to
>>>> run
>>>> ncl on ncar computers, and in my home directory, in my .profile file I
>>>> add
>>>> the following lines.
>>>>
>>>> # Set path for NCAR Graphics:
>>>>
>>>> NCARG_ROOT=/usr/local
>>>> export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
>>>>
>>>> when I try to type ng4ex gsun01, i get the following error,
>>>>
>>>> fatal:syntax error: line 0 before or near gsun01n
>>>> ng4ex gsun01n
>>>> ------------^
>>>>
>>>> fatal:error in statement
>>>>
>>>> Please can someone help.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you
>>>> Vincent Owanda
>>>> University of Connecticut
>>>> Dept. Natural Resource and Environment.
>>>>
>>>>
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>
> LJ(RUAN Tao)
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