Re: Bug in ncl-ncarg installatin using apt-get inside Ubuntu 14.04

Thanks for the feedback, So I miss something after all.


On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:

> Muhammad,
>
> NCAR doesn't provide any LINUX installers for NCL, although we hope to in
> the future.
>
> I think what's happening is that the installer is putting the supplemental
> files in a non-standard location (for NCL), which is /usr/share/ncarg, and
> hence in addition to NCARG_ROOT, you need to setenv NCARG_NCARG to
> /usr/share/ncarg.
>
>
> --Mary
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Muhammad Yunus Ahmad Mazuki <
> ukm.yunus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> ncl was added to Ubuntu repository starting 14.04 (I'm just an user, not
>> the person that added it).
>> Typical to the installation of ncl binary you need to set the
>> $NCARG_ROOT. In Ubuntu 14.04 (through 'sudo apt-get install ncl-ncarg'), I
>> believe the $NCARG_ROOT is /usr. Below are what I have deduced:, the left
>> side are files inside Ubuntu 14.04 and the rigt side is the normal inside
>> ncl binary installation.
>> /usr/share/ncarg $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg
>> /usr/bin $NCARG_ROOT/bin
>> /usr/include/ncarg $NCARG_ROOT/include/ncarg
>> So you see, when I try to run the example 'ng4ex gsun01n -clean', I got
>> the errors below.
>>
>> ~$ ng4ex gsun01n -clean
>>
>> 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) 1995-2013 - All Rights Reserved
>> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>> NCAR Command Language Version 6.1.2
>> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
>> fatal:Could not open ($NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl)
>> fatal:error at line 1
>>
>> fatal:Undefined identifier: (gsn_open_wks) is undefined, can't continue
>> fatal:["Execute.c":8126]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 10
>>
>>
>> Finished running 'ncl < gsun01n'...
>>
>> What I have also assume is that ncl tries to refer to /usr/lib/ncarg,
>> which does not exist. What I did is make a soft link /usr/lib/ncarg ->
>> /usr/share/ncarg . When I run the example 'ng4ex gsun01n -clean', ncl run
>> as it intends to be, although it still gives lots of warning of ERROR
>> OPENING PWRITX DATA FILE /usr/share/ncarg/database/PlotcharData which I
>> deduced the PlotcharData was not including in the apt-get installation.
>>
>> Allright, thats all I wanted to say. I hope something can be done about
>> this. I have also file a bug report in Ubuntu LaunchPad
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ncl/+bug/1329691 . I'm not
>> sure from where Ubuntu pulled the debian installer, is it directly from
>> NCAR?
>>
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Received on Sat Jun 14 01:36:39 2014