[ncl-install] Running NCL on NCAR

Owanda Otieno owandaotieno at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 09:02:59 MDT 2009


Hi Mary,
This doesnt work either, it gives error massage below,

be1005en$ cp $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclex/gsun01n.ncl .
cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/lib/ncarg/nclex/gsun01n.ncl': No such file or
directory

Thank you.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Owanda,
>
> In the future, please only post installation questions to
> ncl-install at ucar.edu.
>
> It looks like maybe you don't have "/bin/csh" installed.
>
> Can you try the following:
>
>  cp $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclex/gsun/gsun01n.ncl .
>  ncl gsun01n.ncl
>
> A window should pop up and you can click on it with your left mouse
> button to advance through the 5 frames of graphics.
>
> If this works, then I'm guessing the original problem is that you
> don't have "/bin/csh" on your system. This is needed in order to run
> "ng4ex".
>
> --Mary
>
>
>
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Owanda Otieno wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>>
>> I am new in this field and therefore in need some BIG help, I want to run
>> ncl on ncar computers, and in my home directory, in my .profile file I add
>> the following lines.
>>
>> # Set path for NCAR Graphics:
>>
>> NCARG_ROOT=/usr/local
>> export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
>>
>> when I try to type ng4ex gsun01, i get the following error,
>>
>> fatal:syntax error: line 0 before or near gsun01n
>> ng4ex gsun01n
>> ------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>>
>> Please can someone help.
>>
>> Thank you
>> Vincent Owanda
>> University of Connecticut
>> Dept. Natural Resource and Environment.
>>
>>
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