[ncl-install] question concerning installation of NCL 5.1.1 64-bit binary for x86_64 chips for LINUX (compiled with gcc 3.3.0)

[Mary Haley]

Hi Sean,

It sounds like you may not have downloaded the correct binary for  
your system.

What does "uname -a" report?  If it says "x86_64" somewhere in the  
output,
and you indeed have gcc V3.3.x, then the binary you want is:

ncl_ncarg-5.1.1.Linux_x86_64_gcc330.tar

If "uname -a" says something like "i686" then you want one of the  
i686 binaries.

--Mary

On Jun 19, 2009, at 3:13 PM, sb792726 at albany.edu wrote:

> To whom it may concern,
>
> Hi, I am currently trying to install  NCL 5.1.1 64-bit binary for  
> x86_64
> chips for LINUX (compiled with gcc 3.3.0) off the earth system grid
> webpage to my linux machine (fedora version 5). my reason for the
> intallation is to convert grib files to netcdf files. I successfully
> gunzipped and untared the program in my directory and it created all
> necessary bin,lib and include direcories. I have also set the  
> NCARG_ROOT
> environment variable and my search path to where NCL/NCARG resides.
> However, when i go to run the program to convert one of my grib  
> files to
> netcdf by typing "ncl_convert2nc gribfile.grb" i recieve a message of:
>
> /grib/sbratton/bin/ncargpath: Exec format error. Binary file not  
> executable.
> Processing file: narr-a_221_19970611_2100_000_1000mb.grb...
> /grib/sbratton/bin/ncl: Exec format error. Binary file not executable.
>
>
> Im not sure of why this is. If you could provide any support  
> concerning
> this problem it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>
> -Sean Bratton
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