[ncl-install] problem with extracting pre-compiled binaries onUbuntu

[Mary Haley]

Hi Christopher,

Sorry you are having problems. It sounds like the file got corrupted somehow.

What is the size of it?  It should be 75415514 bytes:

 ls -l ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_Debian6.0_i686_gcc445.tar.gz 
-rw-rw-r-- 1 haley ncldev 75415514 Feb  8  2013 ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_Debian6.0_i686_gcc445.tar.gz

I put the file on anonymous ftp, if you want to try getting it that way:


ftp ftp.ucar.edu
[Login as anonymous with any password]
ftp> cd pub/scd/haley
ftp> get ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_Debian6.0_i686_gcc445.tar.gz 

I tried this to make sure it works, and didn't have a problem extracting the files with the command you're using:

yslogin2[558]   tar -zxf ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_Debian6.0_i686_gcc445.tar.gz 
yslogin2[559] 

--Mary

On Aug 15, 2013, at 4:59 AM, Christopher Steele (SCI) wrote:

> no I'm afraid not. It's the physical process of extraction that it's not happy with, rather than the environment setup. If I have, for example, the tar archive in the directory $HOME/NCL/  and the NCARG_ROOT environment set to $HOME/NCL in my .bashrc file then when I come to extract the data I type:
> 
>   tar -zxf ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_Debian6.0_i686_gcc445.tar.gz 
> 
> I get the following error message:
> 
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> This happens regardless of where I put the file or where the NCARG_ROOT variable points to in my .bashrc file
> 
> cheers
> 
> 
> 
> Christopher Steele,
> School of Environmental Sciences
> University of East Anglia
> Norwich
> From: Abhishek [abhisau89 at gmail.com]
> Sent: 15 August 2013 11:19
> To: Christopher Steele (SCI)
> Subject: RE: [ncl-install] problem with extracting pre-compiled binaries onUbuntu
> 
> Just make a folder in your home directory and set the folder path in .bashrc . Extract the precompiled binary in this folder ...hope it works
> From: Christopher Steele (SCI)
> Sent: ‎15-‎08-‎2013 15:07
> To: Abhishek; ncl-install at ucar.edu
> Subject: RE: [ncl-install] problem with extracting pre-compiled binaries onUbuntu
> 
> 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
> 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
> From: Christopher Steele (SCI)
> Sent: ‎15-‎08-‎2013 13:24
> To: 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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