<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" style=""><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 style=""><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/macosx.shtml#DownloadBinary">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/macosx.shtml#DownloadBinary</a><br></div><div style=""><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 class=""> 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 class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></span></font><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br><div>S.Rahimi<br><br></div>
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