[ncl-install] unzip ncl_ncar with Cygwin

[Mary Haley]

Caroline,

Sorry for the late response.  I've been on vacation.

If you are getting a "no such file or directory" it likely means that there's something wrong with the path you've typed.

It might be easier to do this:

cd
gunzip ncl*6.1.0*gz

The "cd" commands takes you to your home directory, which it sounds like that's where your file is.

The "gunzip ncl*6.1.0*gz" will gunzip the file, without having to type the whole thing exactly right. The "*" represent "wildcards", which means it will try to gunzip any file that starts with "ncl" and contains "6.1.0" somewhere in the middle and ends with ".gz". 

When you launch Cygwin, you want to make sure you are launcing an Cygwin/X window, and not just a Cygwin window. This is necessary if you want to run NCL and have it display your graphics to the screen as your running the script. You can get some information about starting an Cygwin/X window from:

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html


If you only care about sending your graphics to a PostScript, PDF, or PNG file, then you can do this from a Cygwin window.

--Mary

On Dec 14, 2012, at 1:09 AM, Caroline Cleroux wrote:

> Hello 
> I am having problem to install NCL on my computer. I have a PC and so I installed Cygwin on my machine. I followed very precisely the instructions for “installing and running NCL under Cygwin/X (windows) http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/cygwin.shtml#Troubleshooting
> I am now stuck at the step “Install NCL”, when I type in the Cygwin window “gunzip /cygwin/home/CCleroux/ncl_ncar-6.1.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64_i686.tar.gz" I have an error message “No such file or directory”. I don’t understand it because it looks like all my Cygwin location/paths are correct (I have a home with my name) and I do have the 'ncl_ncar' file in my Cygwin/home so I don’t understand what’s wrong.
> 
> I re-installed the Cygwin program twice, all went well. When I launch Cygwin, I have 2 icones popping up in my task bar, one with a big black X circled by an orange shape and one with a big blue T and a big orange X.
> 
> I am sorry to ask this question, it sounds a stupid problem but I am stuck with it for 2 days.
> 
> Thanks in advance for the help>
> 
> Caroline
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