Re: Trying to download/install ncl/ncarg

I did that first and still got this error.

Then I tried manually gunzipping it and untarring it - still get the error. Is there anywhere else I can obtain these binaries?

—jenny

On Mar 7, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:

> You want to use:
>
> tar zxvf ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_RHEL5.6_x86_64_gcc412.tar.gz
>
> The "z" option is important because this is a compressed file. The "x" is needed to extract the files.
>
> "tvf" is for *.tar files only, and is for giving you a "table of contents" of the tar file. It won't extract files.
>
>
> --Mary
>
> On Mar 7, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Jenny Fox - NOAA Federal <jenny.fox@noaa.gov> wrote:
>
>> Hi there.
>>
>> I’m just trying to update our NCL/NCARG installation on our linux boxes. I downloaded the following files:
>>
>> ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_RHEL5.6_x86_64_gcc412.tar.gz
>> ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_RHEL6.2_x86_64_gcc446.tar.gz
>>
>>
>> When I try to unpack them I get the following error:
>>
>> tar tvf ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_RHEL5.6_x86_64_gcc412.tar.gz
>>
>> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
>> tar: Child returned status 1
>> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>>
>> Are these files not gzipped? Is there another place I can get the binaries? I downloaded them twice, on two different machines, just to be sure.
>>
>> —jenny
>>
>> Jennifer Fox
>> Unix Systems Administrator
>> NOAA/ESRL/CSD
>> 325 Broadway R/CSD
>> Boulder, CO 80305
>>
>> (303) 497-4769 (office)
>> (303) 497-5373 (fax)
>>
>> Jenny.Fox@noaa.gov
>>
>>
>>
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Received on Fri Mar 7 13:30:49 2014