[ncl-install] Trying to download/install ncl/ncarg

[Mary Haley]

You want to use:

tar zxvf ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_RHEL5.6_x86_64_gcc412.tar.gz 

The "z" option is important because this is a compressed file.  The "x" is needed to extract the files.

"tvf" is for *.tar files only, and is for giving you a "table of contents" of the tar file. It won't extract files.


--Mary

On Mar 7, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Jenny Fox - NOAA Federal <jenny.fox at noaa.gov> wrote:

> Hi there.
> 
> I’m just trying to update our NCL/NCARG installation on our linux boxes.  I downloaded the following files:
> 
> ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_RHEL5.6_x86_64_gcc412.tar.gz
> ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_RHEL6.2_x86_64_gcc446.tar.gz
> 
> 
> When I try to unpack them I get the following error:
> 
> tar tvf ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_RHEL5.6_x86_64_gcc412.tar.gz 
> 
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> Are these files not gzipped?  Is there another place I can get the binaries?  I downloaded them twice, on two different machines, just to be sure.
> 
> —jenny
> 
> Jennifer Fox
> Unix Systems Administrator
> NOAA/ESRL/CSD
> 325 Broadway R/CSD
> Boulder, CO  80305
> 
> (303) 497-4769 (office)
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> 
> Jenny.Fox at noaa.gov
> 
> 
> 
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