Re: Problem unzipping/untarring NCL setup file

Mary . . .

Comand:

$ tar -xvf
~/cygwin/home/Book@Enigmatics-Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.
tar

Result:

tar:
/home/Book/cygwin/home/Book@Enigmatics-Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WO
W64_i686.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

David

David L. Book
President, Enigmatics, Inc.

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 From: "Mary Haley" <haley@ucar.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 11:45 AM

Subject: Re: Problem unzipping/untarring NCL setup file

David,

You need to do " tar -xvf", and not just "tar".

> tar -xvf
~/cygwin/home/Book@Enigmatics-Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.
tar

Please see the instructions at:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/cygwin.shtml#InstallNCL

--Mary

On Jan 29, 2013, at 11:13 AM, David Book wrote:

> Mary . . .
>
> Thanks for the suggestion about using a tilde.
>
> The name I gave my computer is "Book-Enigmatics." The prompt at my home
directory reads
>
> Book@Book-Enigmatics ~
>
> (i.e., it displays a tilde), but the prompt after I cd to /usr/local
doesn't show a tilde:
>
> Book@Book-Enigmatics /usr/local
>
> I tried inserting the tilde in my command:
>
> gunzip
~/cygwin/home/Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar.gz
>
> and got this response (note the duplication in the path name):
>
> gzip:
/home/Book/cygwin/home/Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar.gz:
 No such file or directory
>
> Likewise with
>
> gunzip
~/cygwin/home/Book@Book-Enigmatics/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.
tar.gz
>
> But FWIW, when I tried
>
> $ tar
~/cygwin/home/Book@Enigmatics-Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.
tar
>
> the response was
>
> tar: Old option `g' requires an argument.
> Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
>
> I am hopelessly at sea.
>
> David
>
>
>
> David L. Book
> President, Enigmatics, Inc.
>
>
> From: "Mary Haley" <haley@ucar.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 6:40 AM

> Subject: Re: Problem unzipping/untarring NCL setup file
>
>
> On Jan 26, 2013, at 7:36 PM, David Book wrote:
>
> > I use Firefox as my browser and I'm running under Windows 7 on a 64-bit
computer.
> >
> > I downloaded and successfully started Cygwin/X. Using Windows Explorer
I can see my home directory, C:\cygwin\home\book. I can open a Cygwin/X
window by clicking on my Cygwin desktop icon.
> >
> > (But when I open a Cygwin/X window, the prompt reads
> > Book@Book-Enigmatics
> > instead of
> > Book.
> >
> > I don't understand this, but I don't think that's the source of my
problem.)
>
> I'm not sure what the issue is there, but this is a Cygwin problem and
not an NCL problem. It shouldn't be an issue for installing NCL.
>
> >
> > Then I downloaded
> > /ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar.gz
> >
> > and saved it in my home directory. I can see it there, either by
opening the directory with Windows Explorer
> > or by opening a Cygwin/X window and doing
> > ls -a.
> >
> > Then I tried to install it, following the instructions under "Install
NCL" in the chapter entitled "Installing Cygwin/X (Windows)" in the NCL
online manual. I typed
> > cd /usr/local .
> >
> > No problem. The prompt says that I am now at
> > /usr/local ,
> >
> > as it should. But when I type
> > gunzip /ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar.gz ,
>
> In order to access files in your home directory you need to use "~/", and
not "/". If you use "/" it thinks you mean the top directory of the Cygwin
directory tree.
>
> Try
> gunzip ~/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar.gz
>
> and go from there.
>
> --Mary
>
> >
> > I get this message:
> > gzip:
/cygwin/home/Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar.gz: No such
file or directory
> >
> > I tried downloading the file again again. No luck. Then I downloaded
the unzipped file,
> > /ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar ,
> > and tried untarring it (i.e., skipping the gzip step). No luck. My
system still says it can't find the file and/or directory.
> >
> > Can someone tell me what is going on and how to fix it?
> >
> >
> >
> > David
> >
> > David L. Book
> > President, Enigmatics, Inc.
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Received on Tue Jan 29 12:56:08 2013