[ncl-install] help on NCL Installation

[Mary Haley]

Hi,

If you are only interested in running "ncl" on NCL scripts, then it is not important for ncargf90 or ncargf77 to work. These are for compiling the old-style NCAR Graphics C and Fortran programs.

If you need to get these commands to work, then the issue is that you don't appear to have the X11 libraries installed on your system. Either that, or your compiler can't find them. Did you try:

locate libX11

?

If the above command doesn't appear to find anything, then please see:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/linux.shtml#InstallSoftware

for more information about getting X11 installed on your system. 

--Mary

On Dec 5, 2013, at 1:43 AM, D Swain <d_swain at ymail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> Solicit your suggestion on the following.
> 
> I was trying to install the NCL precompiled binaries for Linux (non-openDap) following the web guidelines.
> 
> I am using Ubuntu 9.04 OS on a i386 (32-bit) machine with gcc 4.4.3
> 
> However, on executing commands like "ncargf90" or "ncargf77", the following appear on the terminal for both:
> gfortran -fPIC -fno-second-underscore -fno-range-check -O0 -L/usr/local/ncl-4.3.2/lib -lncarg -lncarg_gks -lncarg_c -lX11 -lXext
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status  
> 
> I have tried with different versions of NCL precompiled binaries as well as installing libx11 but without success. 
> Kindly suggest how to overcome this.
> 
> P.S. I dont want to go for a full OS upgrade at this point of time.
> 
> thanks in advance.
> 
> best regards,
> D. Swain
> 
> 
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