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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">no I'm afraid not. It's the physical process of extraction that it's not happy with, rather than the environment setup. If I have, for example, the tar archive in the directory
$HOME/NCL/ and the NCARG_ROOT environment set to $HOME/NCL in my .bashrc file then when I come to extract the data I type:<br>
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tar -zxf ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_Debian6.0_i686_gcc445.tar.gz <br>
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I get the following error message:<br>
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gzip: stdin: not in gzip format<br>
tar: Child returned status 1<br>
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now<br>
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This happens regardless of where I put the file or where the NCARG_ROOT variable points to in my .bashrc file<br>
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cheers<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF160419"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Abhishek [abhisau89@gmail.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 15 August 2013 11:19<br>
<b>To:</b> Christopher Steele (SCI)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [ncl-install] problem with extracting pre-compiled binaries onUbuntu<br>
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<div style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Just make a folder in your home directory and set the folder path in .bashrc . Extract the precompiled binary in this folder ...hope it works
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-weight:bold">From:
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<a href="mailto:ncl-install@ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-install@ucar.edu</a></span><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">RE: [ncl-install] problem with extracting pre-compiled binaries onUbuntu</span><br>
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<div style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; direction:ltr">Thanks for the quick response. As far as I'm aware when you go through the motions of retrieving the pre-compiled binaries, you have to extract them from the appropriate *tar.gz archive
(The section entitled "extract the file wherever you want NCL to reside" in <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/install.shtml)." target="_blank">
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/install.shtml).</a><br>
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I've put the archive ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_Debian6.0_i686_gcc445.tar.gz in the directory /usr/local/ncl-6.1.2/ but whenever I try to extract the archive using tar -zxf as described I get the error message. The NCARG_ROOT environment has been set to /usr/local/ncl-6.1.2
anyway though I don't think this is the issue as it's the archive itself which appears to be the problem.<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> 15 August 2013 09:41<br>
<b>To:</b> Christopher Steele (SCI)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [ncl-install] problem with extracting pre-compiled binaries on Ubuntu<br>
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<div style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">For precompiled binary you only have to select path in .bashrc
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<div style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; direction:ltr">Hello,<br>
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I've recently upgraded my machine to work with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and have been trying unsuccessfully to install NCL 6.1.2 on the new system. For some reason I can't extract the pre-compiled binaries. It looks like a really simple problem but every time I try
to extract them I get the message:<br>
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gzip: stdin: not in gzip format<br>
tar: Child returned status 1<br>
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now<br>
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I don't see this error with earlier versions of Ubuntu (both 32bit). Do you have any ideas why this may be happening?<br>
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cheers<br>
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