[ncl-install] NCARG_ROOT

[Mary Haley]

I suggest putting the two lines at the end of the .bashrc file.

The important thing is if you have references to $PATH already in your .bashrc file, then make sure these two lines appear *after* those references.
Putting them at the end of the file is generally okay.

If you are worried about this, then you can email me your .bashrc file (offline) and I'll take a look.

--Mary


On Jan 24, 2014, at 2:12 PM, dknollhoff at gvtc.com wrote:

> Hi Mary,
>  
> I am still not having much success. 
>  
> I typed in env | grep SHELL and got
>  
> SHELL=/bin/bash
>  
> When I typed in     ls -la ~/     I did see the .bashrc file. 
>  
> Where within this .bashrc file though do I insert the NCARG_ROOT environment variable and the search path lines?  Within the .bashrc file, does it matter where I insert the following lines:?
>  
> export NCARG_ROOT=~/Downloads
> export PATH=$NCARG_ROOT/bin:$PATH
>  
> With best regards,
>  
> Dave
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Knollhoff [mailto:dknollhoff at gvtc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 6:16 PM
> To: David Knollhoff
> Subject: Fw: [ncl-install] NCARG_ROOT
>  
>  
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mary Haley" <haley at ucar.edu>
> To: <dknollhoff at gvtc.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 1:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [ncl-install] NCARG_ROOT
>  
>  
> Hi Dave,
>  
> The files you edit depend on what shell you are running. Type:
>  
> env | grep SHELL
>  
> You should already have the file in your home directory. Type:
>  
> ls -la ~/
>  
>  
> If you are running /usr/bash or /usr/ksh, then you may need to edit your
> ".profile" or ".login" or ".bashrc" file.
>  
> If you are running /usr/csh or /usr/tcsh, then look for ".cshrc" or
> ".tcshrc".
>  
> --Mary
>  
> On Jan 22, 2014, at 7:30 AM, dknollhoff at gvtc.com wrote:
>  
> > Hi Mary,
> > 
> > Thank you for the guidance.  One other question for now.  What file(s) do
> > I specifically edit for the NCARG_ROOT?  I did read the link below that
> > you included, however, per my novice experience, I am still not for sure
> > what file or files I am looking for to edit.  I really do appreciate your
> > help and I have investigated the archived correspondences at NCL which are
> > very helpful.  Again thank you for your time.
> > 
> > With best regards,
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 
> > Hi Dave,
> > 
> > NCARG_ROOT needs to be set to the location where you see the "bin", "lib"
> > and "include" directories that got created when you extracted the file.
> > 
> > You currently have "bin", "lib", and "include" in your Download directory,
> > which is not a recommended permanent place to install software.
> > 
> > Normally I would suggest extracting the software in a directory like
> > /usr/local. If you don't have permissions to do that, then you can put it
> > somewhere in your home directory under a directory called "NCL", like
> > "/home/dknollhoff/NCL"  and then setting NCARG_ROOT to
> > /home/dknollhoff/NCL
> > 
> > Did you read this section on how to set NCARG_ROOT for your system:
> > 
> > http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/install.shtml#SetNCARG_ROOT
> > 
> > --Mary
> > 
> > 
> > On Jan 20, 2014, at 7:28 PM, dknollhoff at gvtc.com wrote:
> > 
> >> I have downloaded the precompiled binary,
> >> ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_Debian6.0_x86_64_nodap_gcc445.tar.gz.  I extracted
> >> the software to the my Download directory.  The .gz file was removed.
> >> Three directories (bin, include and lib) were created.  I do not
> >> understand where to set the NCARG_ROOT environment variable? What is the
> >> naming convention of the NCL executables and accompanying files and what
> >> subdirectory might they found in?  There are examples of how to set the
> >> environment variable, but I can not seem to find  any of the example
> >> files on my linux system?
> >> 
> >> Thank you,
> >> 
> >> Dave
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