<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Kwabena,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The “ng4ex” command is actually a csh (“C-Shell”) wrapper script that runs certain NCL example scripts, and it seems as though csh is not installed on your machine. For what it’s worth, csh is not actually required to run the “ncl” command itself; rather, only certain scripts included with NCL require csh, such as ng4ex and ncl_filedump.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you intend to use any of those scripts, you will need to install csh using your Linux distribution’s package manager, for example:</div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">sudo apt-get install csh</font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span># Debian/Ubuntu</div><div class="">or</div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">sudo yum install csh</font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span># Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Again, if you only need to run NCL itself, you should be able to just run the “ncl” command without installing anything else.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope this helps!</div><div class="">Kevin</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 16, 2017, at 3:33 PM, Kwabena Fosu-Amankwah <<a href="mailto:fosu77@gmail.com" class="">fosu77@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi,<div class=""> I installed ncl with: <span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13.3333px;" class="">conda create -n </span><i style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13.3333px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">ncl_stable</i><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13.3333px;" class=""> -c conda-forge ncl=6.4.0 in anaconda3</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13.3333px;" class="">after the installation I activated the ncl_stable.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13.3333px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13.3333px;" class="">Tested the installation with:</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13.3333px;" class="">ncl -V and had</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13.3333px;" class="">6.4.0 as output.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13.3333px;" class="">how the second command of: </span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13.3333px;" class="">ng4ex xy05n -clean -W png which is supposed to give me a graph rather gave me:</span><font face="courier" class=""><span style="font-size:13.3333px" class="">bash: /home/kwabena/anaconda3/envs/ncl_stable/bin/ng4ex: /bin/csh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory.</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="courier" class=""><span style="font-size:13.3333px" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="courier" class=""><span style="font-size:13.3333px" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="courier" class=""><span style="font-size:13.3333px" class="">Please what seem to be the problem? I really need to get ncl running in order to proceed with my PhD work.</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="courier" class=""><span style="font-size:13.3333px" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="courier" class=""><span style="font-size:13.3333px" class="">Thank you in advance</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="courier" class=""><span style="font-size:13.3333px" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="courier" class=""><span style="font-size:13.3333px" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="courier" class=""><span style="font-size:13.3333px" class="">Kwabena</span></font></div></div>
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