<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">John,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Sorry if this has already been answered. I'm going through some old emails that look like they haven't been responded to yet.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The likely cause of this problem is that your environment is not set up properly.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">At a minimum, in order to run ncl, you must have NCARG_ROOT set to the parent directory directory of where the NCL software was installed, AND, $NCARG_ROOT/bin must be part of your PATH environment variable.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">When you use apt-get, which is not supported by us, the installation gets split up over two parent directories, and hence you also need to set NCARG_NCARG, which I believe apt-get does for you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The problem comes in when you try to install a new version of NCL. When you do this, you must update NCARG_ROOT and PATH to point to the new directories, but you must also make sure you don't have the old NCARG_NCARG still set. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In order to see if your environment is wrong, you can type the following commands on the UNIX command line:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">which ncl</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">env | grep NCARG</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">ncl -V</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:58 PM, Trostel, John M. via ncl-install <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncl-install@ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-install@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I should add that one install was using apt-get install, giving me a 6.4 NCL, while the other was using a precompiled binary, giving me a 6.5 NCL. I used the <span>ncl_ncarg-6.5.0-SuSE12_<wbr>64bit_nodap_gnu730.tar.gz file...</span></p>
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Georgia Tech Research Institute<br>
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<div id="m_-7951966249921194051divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> ncl-install <<a href="mailto:ncl-install-bounces@ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-install-bounces@ucar.edu</a>> on behalf of John Trostel via ncl-install <<a href="mailto:ncl-install@ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-install@ucar.edu</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 14, 2018 10:43:10 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [ncl-install] ng4ex directory error still there?</font>
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<div dir="ltr">I installed ncl two ways and both ways resulted in a directory error when running the "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:courier;font-size:13.3333px">ng4ex xy05n -clean" test.</span>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="courier"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">In both cases it failed to find the xy05n test.</span></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="courier"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">Running directly as suggested: "ncl $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclex/<wbr>xyplot/xy01n.ncl" however works.</span></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="courier"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">Is the ng4ex script still broken?</span></font></div>
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<div>John Trostel</div>
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