<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 Sara,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is the file that you downloaded explicitly named “ncl_ncarg-6.4.0.tar.gz”? If so, I think you may have downloaded the NCL source code instead of an NCL binary.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since you are running Ubuntu, I would recommend downloading the “ncl_ncarg-6.4.0-Debian8.6_64bit_gnu492.tar.gz” binary release from this page: <a href="https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/dataset/ncl.640.dap/file.html" class="">https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/dataset/ncl.640.dap/file.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alternatively, there is a way to install NCL on Windows 10 if you’re interested in trying that instead: <a href="http://ncl.ucar.edu/Download/windows_linux_subsystem.shtml" class="">http://ncl.ucar.edu/Download/windows_linux_subsystem.shtml</a></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 28, 2018, at 12:00 PM, SARA CORNEJO BUENO 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="">Hi! I cann`t open a NCL archive and I followed all the steps:<div class="">downloaded ncl_ncarg-6.4.0.tar.gz and<br class=""></div><div class="">
<ol style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 15px;font-size:10pt;line-height:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-indent:0em" class=""><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/install.shtml#ExtractFile" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(133,45,133);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-weight:normal" class="">Extract the file where you want the software to be installed</a>.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 15px;font-size:10pt;line-height:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-indent:0em" class=""><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/install.shtml#SetNCARG_ROOT" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(133,45,133);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-weight:normal" class="">Set the NCARG_ROOT and PATH environment variables to point to where the software was installed</a>.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 15px;font-size:10pt;line-height:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-indent:0em" class=""><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/install.shtml#SetDISPLAY" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(133,45,133);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-weight:normal" class="">Set the DISPLAY environment variable to indicate where to display graphics</a><span class=""> </span>(this step likely not needed)</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 15px;font-size:10pt;line-height:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-indent:0em" class=""><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/install.shtml#TestNCL" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(133,45,133);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-weight:normal" class="">Test your NCL/NCARG installation</a>.</li></ol><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:13.3333px" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div>
My version is
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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="">Ubuntu (Oracle VM virtual box), and when I open the ncl archive NCL doesn´t appear as an option to open the archive, I can´t find it in all of my installed programs :(</span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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="">Can I install it in windows10?</span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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="">thanks </span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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="">Sara</span></div></div>
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