[ncl-install] another instance of "possible directory error in ncl-6.4.0 test script?"

Robyn B Landers rblanders at uwaterloo.ca
Mon Dec 18 14:43:37 MST 2017


I think you are correct. I seem to have lost track of the fact
that earlier set-up of the machine grabbed 6.3.0 from the yum repo
before I got around to looking at 6.4.0 from the NCL site.
Thanks for straightening me out.


Robyn


> It looks like you have two installations of NCL on your system: an older
> version installed to /usr that was likely installed by "yum" or "apt-get",
> and one installed to /opt/ncl-6.4.0.
>
> The older installation likely caused the environment variable NCARG_NCARG
> to be set to /usr/share/ncarg, which you no longer want.
>
> To fix this, make sure that NCARG_ROOT is the *only* NCARG_XXXX
> environment
> variable you are setting. You can verify this by typing from a terminal
> window:
>
> env | grep NCARG
>
> If you see something like this:
>
> NCARG_NCARG=/usr/share/ncarg
>
> then edit whatever .xxxx file in your home directory is setting this, and
> remove the setting or comment it out. If there are any other ones other
> than NCARG_ROOT, then comment or remove these as well.
>
> Then, log out and log back in to see if you can now run the "ng4ex xy01n
> -clean" command.
>
> --Mary
>



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