<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">Hello.</div><div class="gmail_extra">Executing ncl on a newly installed ubuntu box and an old ncl file that used to work generates this error:</div><div class="gmail_extra">>fatal:Could not open ($NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl)</div><div class="gmail_extra">>fatal:error at line 2 in file proj1.ncl</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That's odd, because NCARG_ROOT is defined and that file is openable and has permissive permissions for all users:</div><div class="gmail_extra">>user@host:~/Downloads/1200/0214$ echo $NCARG_ROOT</div><div class="gmail_extra">/usr</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">>user@host</span>:~/Downloads/1200/0214$ ls -la $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl</div><div class="gmail_extra">-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 490093 Jan 28  2016 /usr/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl</div><div class="gmail_extra">><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">user@host</span>:~/Downloads/1200/0214$ head  $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl</div><div class="gmail_extra">;</div><div class="gmail_extra">;      $Id: gsn_code.ncl,v 1.238.4.3 2010-05-06 17:13:26 haley Exp $</div><div class="gmail_extra">;;;;;</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So I am confused. The only way "could not open" would make sense was if ncl was opening the file for write access, which still doesn't make sense.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Here are the first lines from the ncl file:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"      ; These four libraries are automatically</div><div class="gmail_extra">load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"       ; loaded from NCL V6.4.0 onward.</div><div class="gmail_extra">load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"   ; No need for user to explicitly load.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>How do I fix this?</div><div>thanks,</div><div>Dave</div></div></div></div>