<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 Dave,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are you using the <font face="Menlo" class="">ncl-ncarg</font> package provided via apt on Ubuntu? I just tried running the same ‘<font face="Menlo" class="">load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"</font>’ command on an Ubuntu 16.04 system using NCL 6.3.0 from the <font face="Menlo" class="">ncl-ncarg</font> apt package and experienced the same error.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was, however, able to successfully run the “load” command on the same machine using one of our <a href="http://ncl.ucar.edu/Download/" class="">precompiled binaries</a> (specifically <font face="Menlo" class="">ncl_ncarg-6.4.0-Debian8.6_64bit_gnu492.tar.gz</font> for Ubuntu 16.04).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m not sure why the <font face="Menlo" class="">ncl-ncarg</font> package seems to be broken, but unfortunately we are not the maintainers of that package. If you continue to experience issues like this, I would strongly recommend using either a <a href="http://ncl.ucar.edu/Download/" class="">precompiled NCL binary</a> or <a href="http://ncl.ucar.edu/Download/conda.shtml" class="">installing NCL via conda</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Additionally, the <font face="Menlo" class="">ncl-ncarg</font> package provides NCL v6.3.0, which was released in March 2015. Both of the alternative installation methods I linked to currently offer NCL v6.4.0 (released February 2017) and will also offer NCL v6.5.0 for download when it is released in the near future.</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 Feb 16, 2018, at 3:36 PM, Dave Burns via ncl-install <<a href="mailto:ncl-install@ucar.edu" class="">ncl-install@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><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 class=""></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 $NCARG_ROOT</div><div class="gmail_extra">/usr</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline" class="">>user@host</span>:~/Downloads/1200/0214$ ls -la $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl</div><div class="gmail_extra">-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 490093 Jan 28 2016 /usr/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl</div><div class="gmail_extra">><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline" class="">user@host</span>:~/Downloads/1200/0214$ 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 $</div><div class="gmail_extra">;;;;;</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">So I am confused. The only way "could not open" would make sense was if ncl was opening the file for write access, which still doesn't make sense.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Here are the first lines from the ncl file:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">load "$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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">How do I fix this?</div><div class="">thanks,</div><div class="">Dave</div></div></div></div>
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