[ncl-install] trouble installing ncl on a PC

[Mary Haley]

Hi Dan,

Could you try downloading the 6.0.0-beta version instead and see if you have the same problem?

You need to make sure that you are running NCL from a Cygwin/X11 window, and not just a Cygwin window.

There's information here about running Cygwin/X:

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting

Lastly, did you upgrade Cygwin before you installed NCL? This also might help.

--Mary

On Apr 7, 2011, at 7:00 PM, Daniel Kirshbaum wrote:

> Hello there,
> 
> I am trying to install the ncl binaries (following the link to ncl_ncarg-5.2.1.CYGWIN_NT-5.1_i686.tar.gz on the Earthsystemgrid ncl download page) onto my PC, which is running Cygwin-X (on Windows XP, if that matters).  I followed all of the instructions to the tee (I believe), but ncl won't run.  From a cygwin-X shell, it does not give an error message, it just doesn't do anything and returns to the command prompt.  But I have also tried to run ncl from Windows Explorer, which gives me the following error message:
> 
> "This application has failed to start because cygX11-6.dll was not found.  Re-installing the application may fix this problem."
> 
> I checked my PATH environment variable and it seems to look ok.  I have attached it here, along with all of my environment variables, in the file "printenv.log".  One question is that my cygwin seems to be installed in a different directory than the installation instructions seems to expect.  For example, my home directory is:
> 
> C:\Cygwin\localpackages\home\Dan
> 
> whereas the instructions would expect it to be located at c:\cygwin\home\Dan
> 
> Could this be a source of the problem?  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Best regards,
> Dan Kirshbaum
> University of Reading
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