[ncl-install] problem with extracting pre-compiled binaries on Ubuntu

[Christopher Steele (SCI)]

Thanks for the quick response. As far as I'm aware when you go through the motions of retrieving the pre-compiled binaries, you have to extract them from the appropriate *tar.gz archive (The section entitled "extract the file wherever you want NCL to reside" in http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/install.shtml).

I've put the archive ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_Debian6.0_i686_gcc445.tar.gz in the directory /usr/local/ncl-6.1.2/ but whenever I try to extract the archive using tar -zxf as described I get the error message. The NCARG_ROOT environment has been set to /usr/local/ncl-6.1.2 anyway though I don't think this is the issue as it's the archive itself which appears to be the problem.

cheers

Christopher Steele,
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich
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From: Abhishek [abhisau89 at gmail.com]
Sent: 15 August 2013 09:41
To: Christopher Steele (SCI)
Subject: RE: [ncl-install] problem with extracting pre-compiled binaries on Ubuntu

For precompiled binary you only have to select path in .bashrc
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From: Christopher Steele (SCI)<mailto:Christopher.Steele at uea.ac.uk>
Sent: ‎15-‎08-‎2013 13:24
To: ncl-install at ucar.edu<mailto:ncl-install at ucar.edu>
Subject: [ncl-install] problem with extracting pre-compiled binaries on Ubuntu

Hello,

I've recently upgraded my machine to work with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and have been trying unsuccessfully to install NCL 6.1.2 on the new system. For some reason I can't extract the pre-compiled binaries. It looks like a really simple problem but every time I try to extract them I get the message:

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I don't see this error with earlier versions of Ubuntu (both 32bit). Do you have any ideas why this may be happening?

cheers

Christopher Steele,
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich
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