Re: ncl binaries

Hi Stephanie,

It looks like maybe you didn't download the correct binaries for your
system. The "ia64" indicates they are for an itanium system.
My guess is that you have an x86_64 system.

You can type "uname -m" on the UNIX command line to see if it says
"x86_64".

If it does, I recommend downloading one of the x86_64 Debian binaries.
They should still work, even on a SUSE machine.
If uname -m reports something like "i686", then download one of the
Debian i686 binaries.

--Mary

On Oct 11, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Stephanie Landman wrote:

> Good day,
>
> I have downloaded the
> ncl_ncarg-6.0.0.Linux_SUSE_ia64_nodap_gcc412.tar.gz binary for my
> openSUSE machine:
> x86_64 and gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.5.1 20101208.
>
> Once I have the file untarred and /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin
> directories updated I get (and many more);
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 8338 11992 55831656 May 27 21:36 ncl
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 8338 11992 31854 May 27 21:36 ng4ex
>
> I try to run the command ng4ex gsun01n - I then get the error message:
> /usr/local/bin/ncargpath: Exec format error. Binary file not
> executable.
> However, if I locate ncargpath, I get:
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 8338 11992 27197 May 25 16:20 ncargpath
>
> The NCL executable also does not seem to be working. The command /
> usr/local/bin/ncl gives me:
> -bash: /usr/local/bin/ncl: cannot execute binary file
>
> Any guidance to addressing these errors will be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Stephanie
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