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

[Jenny Fox - NOAA Federal]

I did that first and still got this error.

Then I tried manually gunzipping it and untarring it - still get the error.  Is there anywhere else I can obtain these binaries?

—jenny


On Mar 7, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:

> 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)
>> (303) 497-5373 (fax)
>> 
>> Jenny.Fox at noaa.gov
>> 
>> 
>> 
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