I used the wget script to download the file, but when I check the file type I get:
file ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_RHEL5.6_x86_64_gcc412.tar.gz
ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_RHEL5.6_x86_64_gcc412.tar.gz: ASCII HTML document text, with very long lines, with CRLF line terminators
—jenny
On Mar 7, 2014, at 1:30 PM, Jenny Fox - NOAA Federal <jenny.fox@noaa.gov> wrote:
> 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
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>>>
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>>>
>>> Jenny.Fox@noaa.gov
>>>
>>>
>>>
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