<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">I created a </span><span class="lG" style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">homebrew</span><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px"> cask for easy installation of </span><span class="lG" style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">ncl</span><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px"> on OS X.</span><br style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px"><br style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px"><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">To use it, you first need to install </span><span class="lG" style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">homebrew</span><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px"> by pasting the following line in to your Terminal (more info at </span><a href="http://brew.sh/" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">http://brew.sh</a><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">):</span><br style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px"><br style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px"><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:13.6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;border-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(247,247,247)">ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install" target="_blank" style="z-index: 0;">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<span class="lG">Homebrew</span>/install/master/install</a>)"</pre><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">Then, install caskroom (<a href="http://caskroom.io/" target="_blank" style="z-index: 0;">http://caskroom.io/</a>), followed by <span class="lG">ncl</span>:<pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:13.6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;border-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><span style="font-size:13.6px;line-height:1.45">brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
</span><span style="font-size:13.6px;line-height:1.45">brew cask install ncar-<span class="lG">ncl</span></span></pre></div><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">This will:</div><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">1) Download the appropriate <span class="lG">NCL</span> binary for your version of OS X from the Earth System Grid<br></div><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">2) Check for <span class="lG">homebrew</span> dependencies, gcc and xquartz, and install them if not found</div><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">3) Install <span class="lG">ncl</span> to /usr/local/<span class="lG">ncl</span>-6.3.0</div><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">A message will appear telling you how to:</div><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">1) add $NCARG_ROOT/bin to your $PATH </div><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">2) add libgfortran.3.dylib to your $DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH.</div><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">After that, type <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:13.6px;line-height:1.45;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><span class="lG">ncl</span></span> at the command line and you should be good to go.</div><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;line-height:26px">You can also easily install other related tools using:<br><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:13.6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;border-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;word-break:normal;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(247,247,247)">brew install <span class="lG">homebrew</span>/science/cdo
brew install <span class="lG">homebrew</span>/science/nco
brew cask install panoply
<span style="font-size:13.6px;line-height:1.45">brew cask install qlnetcdf</span><br>brew install imagemagick</pre></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:19 AM Mary Haley <<a href="mailto:haley@ucar.edu" target="_blank">haley@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">First, why are you installing a Debian Linux version for your Mac? You want to download one of the Mac binaries, depending on your version of MacOS:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">ncl_ncarg-6.3.0.MacOS_10.10_64bit_nodap_gcc492.tar.gz</div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">ncl_ncarg-6.3.0.MacOS_10.9_64bit_nodap_gcc492.tar.gz</div><div style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">ncl_ncarg-6.3.0.MacOS_10.8_64bit_nodap_gcc471.tar.gz</div></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">You can get more information about which binary to download from here:</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/macosx.shtml#DownloadBinary" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/macosx.shtml#DownloadBinary</a><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Second, you downloaded the binary to your "Desktop" directory, so when you try to untar it, you need to include that directory in your path:</div><div style="font-size:small">
<p> tar -zxf ~/Desktop/xxxxx.tar.gz</p></div><div style="font-size:small">"xxxxx.tar.gz" should be replaced by the name of the file you end up downloading.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Good luck,</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">--Mary</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Setareh Rahimi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:setareh.rahimi@gmail.com" target="_blank">setareh.rahimi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I am trying to install NCL on my mac (Version 10.8.5), once I am trying to extract <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13.3333px;line-height:16px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">the file where I want the software to be installed I get an error. Please have a look at the attached pic. The error comes when I want to do tar -zxf command.</font></span></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;line-height:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;line-height:16px">Please advice me in this regard.</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;line-height:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;line-height:16px">Kind regards,<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></span></font><span><font color="#888888">-- <br><div>S.Rahimi<br><br></div>
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