[ncl-install] Install NCL Windows 8

[Mary Haley]

You may need to be running an Cygwin/X window, and not just a Cywgin Window.

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html

>From the Cygwin/X window, you can then try running nedit.

--Mary


On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Tainá <taina.martins1 at yahoo.com.br> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I am having trouble installing NCL in Windows 8. I have followed all steps
> with success, until this one:
>
> Every user of NCL needs to set their environment before they can use NCL.
> You can do this by opening your "c:\cygwin\home\*xxx*\.bashrc" (or
> "c:\cygwin\home\*xxx*\.bash_profile" if ".bashrc" doesn't exist) file
> with a UNIX editor and adding the lines:
>
>     export NCARG_ROOT=/usr/local
>     export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
>
> Please note that you must use a UNIX editor to change this file, and not a
> Windows application like "notepad". The UNIX editor should be invoked from
> a Cygwin or X/Cygwin window. If you are unfamiliar with UNIX editors, we
> recommend that you use nedit <http://www.nedit.org/>, which is available
> through the Cygwin "setup.exe" program.
>
>
> I noticed that nedit was not selected when I first installed the Cygwin,
> so I ran the setup.exe again and selected the nedit package.
>
> But when I type nedit -V in the Cygwin prompt, it shows an error message:
>
> /usr/bin/nedit.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
> cygXm-2.dll:cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
>
> Could anyoe help me with that?
>
> Thank you very much!!
>
>
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