[ncl-install] another instance of "possible directory error in ncl-6.4.0 test script?"

[Mary Haley]

Robyn,

It looks like you have two installations of NCL on your system: an older
version installed to /usr that was likely installed by "yum" or "apt-get",
and one installed to /opt/ncl-6.4.0.

The older installation likely caused the environment variable NCARG_NCARG
to be set to /usr/share/ncarg, which you no longer want.

To fix this, make sure that NCARG_ROOT is the *only* NCARG_XXXX environment
variable you are setting. You can verify this by typing from a terminal
window:

env | grep NCARG

If you see something like this:

NCARG_NCARG=/usr/share/ncarg

then edit whatever .xxxx file in your home directory is setting this, and
remove the setting or comment it out. If there are any other ones other
than NCARG_ROOT, then comment or remove these as well.

Then, log out and log back in to see if you can now run the "ng4ex xy01n
-clean" command.

--Mary



On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Robyn B Landers <rblanders at uwaterloo.ca>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm new here.  I just installed NCARG 6.4.0 from prebuilt bundle for RHEL
> 7.
> I appear to be experiencing the same problem as reported by Sam McClatchie
> in October with the subject
>   "possible directory error in ncl-6.4.0 test script?"
> In that thread, he reports that the suggested ng4ex test fails to run.
> In response, a suggestion for tracking down the cause was to run the
> ultimate
> net effect of that test, which is
>
>   ncl $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclex/xyplot/xy01n.ncl
>
> After that suggestion, I did not see any further traffic in the thread
> in the November and December archives.
>
> When I do that ncl command, it works and I get a graph.
>
> When I run it using ng4ex, as suggested as an installation check, it fails
> because it can't find resfiles. You can see the path problems below:
>
>   [root at bow ncl-6.4.0]# echo $NCARG_ROOT
>   /opt/ncl-6.4.0
>
>   [root at bow ncl-6.4.0]# echo $PATH
>   /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/
> usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/diags/bin:/root/bin:/opt/ncl-6.4.0/bin
>
>   [root at bow ncl-6.4.0]# ncargpath root
>   /opt/ncl-6.4.0
>
>   [root at bow ncl-6.4.0]# ncargpath resfiles
>   /usr/share/ncarg/resfiles
>
>
> Robyn Landers
> University of Waterloo
>
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