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<p>I think the Ubuntu install from the repository puts the binary in
/usr/bin and most other stuff in /usr/share/ncarg. So if you set
NCAR's suggested paths it won't work or find things.</p>
<p>Jeremy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/16/2018 03:36 PM, Dave Burns via
ncl-install wrote:<br>
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<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
($NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">>fatal:error at line 2 in file
proj1.ncl</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">That's odd, because NCARG_ROOT is
defined and that file is openable and has permissive
permissions for all users:</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">>user@host:~/Downloads/1200/0214$
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>
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<div class="gmail_extra">; $Id: gsn_code.ncl,v 1.238.4.3
2010-05-06 17:13:26 haley Exp $</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">;;;;;</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">So I am confused. The only way "could
not open" would make sense was if ncl was opening the file
for write access, which still doesn't make sense.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Here are the first lines from the ncl
file:</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">load
"$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>
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<div>How do I fix this?</div>
<div>thanks,</div>
<div>Dave</div>
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