[ncl-install] Problem unzipping/untarring NCL setup file

[Mary Haley]

David,

You need to be careful about when you use "~/" and just "/".

If you use ~/ in front of a path, then it will automatically prepend your home directory to it, which is /home/Book

So, you *don't* want to do this:

>  tar xvf ~/cygwin/home/Book at Enigmatics-Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar


This should work:

cd /usr/local
tar -xvf /home/Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar

or this:

cd /usr/local
tar -xvf ~/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar

Again, "~/" is just a substitution for your home directory, which appears to be "/home/Book/".

--Mary

On Jan 29, 2013, at 1:23 PM, David Book wrote:

> Daniel . . .
> 
> Thanks again. Here's what I did and what I got:
>                                                         
> 
> Book at Book-Enigmatics ~
> $ cd /usr/local  
>                                                                  
> Book at Book-Enigmatics /usr/local
> $ tar xvf ~/cygwin/home/Book at Enigmatics-Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar
> tar: /home/Book/cygwin/home/Book at Enigmatics-Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> Book at Book-Enigmatics /usr/local
> $ tar xvf ~/cygwin/home/Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar         tar: /home/Book/cygwin/home/Book/ncl_ncarg-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> 
> David
> 
> 
> David L. Book 
> President, Enigmatics, Inc. 
> 
> 
> From: "David Book" <davidbook at enigmatics.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 12:02 PM
> To: "Daniel Packman" <pack at ucar.edu>
> Subject: Re: [ncl-install] Problem unzipping/untarring NCL setup file
> 
> Daniel . . .
> 
> Here's what I did and what I got:
> 
> $cd 
> 
> Book at Book-Enigmatics ~
> $ pwd
> /home/Book
> 
> Book at Book-Enigmatics ~
> 
> 
> So the directory is named "Book," but the prompt says "Book at Book-Enigmatics ~" What does this mean? 
> 
> 
> David
> 
> David L. Book 
> President, Enigmatics, Inc. 
> 
> 
> From: "Daniel Packman" <pack at ucar.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 10:30 AM
> To: davidbook at enigmatics.com
> Subject: Re: [ncl-install] Problem unzipping/untarring NCL setup file
> 
> 
> It sounds like you need to sort out just what your home directory looks like
> within cygwin. If you just do a "cd" with no arguments, you should be taken
> to your home directory. If you then do a "pwd", the path to your home directory
> should be echoed.
> 
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