Re: Maybe helpful - installing NCL on OpenSUSE 12.2

Hi Mary,

Thank you for this support. I am now able to run my scripts from the linux
command prompt.

Regards,
Geoffrey

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:

>
> On Sep 25, 2012, at 7:36 AM, Geoffrey sabiiti wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi NCL Installation support team,
> >
> > I hope you are well.
> >
> > I am have installed NCL on OpenSUSE 12.2 for use to undertake analysis
> of my climate model outputs. Though the installation of NCL was successful
> and gives me the plots;
> >
> > I have already set my NCARG env in .bashrc.
> >
> > geoffrey@linux-m84y:~> ng4ex gsun01n.ncl
> >
> > NCAR Graphics NCL Example <gsun01n>
> >
> >
> > This example was set up to display the output to an
> > X11 window.
> >
> > Copying gsun01n.ncl
> >
> > Running NCL...
> > Copyright (C) 1995-2012 - All Rights Reserved
> > University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> > NCAR Command Language Version 6.1.0-beta
> > The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> > See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> >
> > Finished running 'ncl < gsun01n'...
> >
> > geoffrey@linux-m84y:~>
> >
> > When I type ncl;
> > geoffrey@linux-m84y:~/archive/
> > workshopdata/ncl_scripts/Corrected_ncl_scripts_kenya_workshop> ncl
> > Copyright (C) 1995-2012 - All Rights Reserved
> > University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> > NCAR Command Language Version 6.1.0-beta
> > The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> > See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> > ncl 0>
> >
> > At this point when I try to run the ncl script, I end up with some error
> message below;
> >
> > ncl 0> will_plot_era_arc2_std.ncl
> > fatal:syntax error: line 0 before or near .
> > will_plot_era_arc2_std.
> > ----------------------^
> >
> > fatal:error in statement
> > ncl 1>
> >
> > Please consider to help think of a solution.
>
> Hi Geoffrey,
>
> In order to run an NCL script, you don't want to run "ncl" interactively.
> Instead, run it from the UNIX command line:
>
> ncl will_plot_era_arc2_std.ncl
>
> If you really want to run your script from interactive NCL, then you can
> type:
>
> ncl 0> load "will_plot_era_arc2_std.ncl"
>
> --Mary
>
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Geoffrey Sabiiti
> > Department of Geography, Geo-information & Climatic Sciences
> > College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
> > Makerere University
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Ryan Kelly <rkelly@life.illinois.edu>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Maybe this is obvious or already discussed, but I just ran into and then
> overcame some trouble installing NCL on OS X Lion (10.7), and thought I'd
> pass along the info.
> >
> > I was installing NCL per the well-documented OS X procedure at:
> > http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/macosx.shtml
> >
> > Ran into the issue described at:
> > http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/linux.shtml.
> >
> > Specifically, when running the post-install test I got the error:
> > 'dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/gfortran/lib/libgfortran.3.dylib'
> >
> > Running:
> > ls /usr/local/lib/libg*
> >
> > showed I did have 'libgfortran.2.dylib' in the right location, but
> indeed was missing 'libgfortran.3.dylib'. I updated my gcc install with a
> package from:
> > http://hpc.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > (which is very easy) and now have the library in /usr/local/lib as
> required.
> >
> > Running the suggested NCL test described at
> >
> > http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/install.shtml#TestNCL
> >
> > now works fine so this fix appears a success.
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> > Geoffrey Sabiiti
> > Department of Geography, Geo-information & Climatic Sciences
> > College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
> > Makerere University
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
> > Makerere University
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-- 
Geoffrey Sabiiti
Department of Geography, Geo-information & Climatic Sciences
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Makerere University