[ncl-install] Running XQuartz

[Mary Haley]

Just FYI:  We are going to look into installing a 32-bit VM for OpenSuse
and try building NCL on that.  We'll keep you posted if we get anything
working.

--Mary


On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Dawit,
>
> The only 32-bit Linux binary we have at the moment is this one:
>
> ncl_ncarg-6.4.0-Debian7.11_32bit_nodap_gnu472.tar.gz
>
> I don't know if you can run a Debian binary successfully under OpenSuSE.
>
> You can try building NCL from source code and I can help you with this. We
> could even then provide this binary on the ESG website as a service for
> other users.
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Dawit Abebe <dawit.kan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Mary,
>>
>> I shifted to using Linux, which I have installed successfully on my
>> machine. The system includes:
>> 1. OpenSuse 12.1
>> 2. My operating system is 32bites, which i figured out using the
>> command "uname -m" and resulting as i686.
>>
>> My problem is now that could not find a binary that meets the later
>> condition (32-bit). The download options for suse 12.1 is based on
>> 64-bit (e.g. ncl_ncarg-6.4.0-SUSE12.1_64bit_nodap_intel1603.tar.gz) as
>> provided in the web:
>> https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/dataset/ncl.640.dap/file.html.
>>
>> What is the way around this?
>>
>> Thank you so much
>>
>> Dawit
>>
>>
>>
>> On 09/03/2017, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
>> > Dawit,
>> >
>> > What happens when you try to run the ng4ex command? Please be very
>> explicit
>> > and include the exact error message, if any.
>> >
>> > What happens if you send the output to a PNG file instead?
>> >
>> > ng4ex xy01n -W png -clean
>> >
>> > What do the following commands report from the UNIX command line:
>> >
>> > env | grep NCARG
>> > which ncl
>> > ncl -V
>> >
>> > --Mary
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 1:09 AM, Dawit Abebe <dawit.kan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Dear colleagues,
>> >>
>> >> I was trying to install XQuartz for NCL but it is not responding to the
>> >> test command, i.e. “ng4ex xy01n -clean”. I downloaded and installed
>> >> version
>> >> XQuartz-2.7.11.dmg and I’m working on Mac OS-X Capitan Version 10.11.3.
>> >>
>> >> Can you help fix the problem?
>> >>
>> >> Thank you so much
>> >>
>> >> Dawit
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