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

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 Fri Jun 13 08:15:43 2014