[ncl-install] possible directory error in ncl-6.4.0 test script?

[Mary Haley]

Hi Sam,

There's definitely something off here.

>From your description, it sounds like you downloaded the gzipped tarfile
from the ESG and then probably extracted it somewhere.

Can you tell me how and where you extracted the files from the gzipped
tarfile?  Also, what does the following report (from the UNIX command line):

which ncl
env | grep NCARG
ncargpath lib
ncargpath ncarg

In general, when you install NCL, you should only need to set the
NCARG_ROOT environment variable.  The above commands will tell me if any
other NCARG_XXXX environment variables are being set. If you have any old
environment variables left over from a previous installation, then you may
need to change them, or not set them at all.

--Mary




On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Sam McClatchie <smcclatchie at fishocean.info>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've just installed NCL-6.4.0 on ubuntu 17.10 using the opendap enabled
> archive ncl_ncarg-6.4.0-Debian8.6_64bit_gnu492.tar.gz.
>
> Everything seems to be working fine, e.g.
> ng4ex NUG_xy_plot NUG_panel_plot
>
> runs and produces the plots, and the opendap test script returns the
> expected output.  However, I detect what may be a small error in one of the
> tests on this page <http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/install.shtml>
> <http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/install.shtml>:
>
> You can quickly test if NCL is installed properly by typing:
>
>     ng4ex xy01n -clean
>
> smcc at jaguar:~$ ng4ex xy01n -clean
>
> NCAR Graphics NCL Example <xy01n>
>
> Segmentation fault
> Copying xy01n.ncl
> cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/ncl-6.4.0/lib/ncarg/nclex//xy01n.ncl': No
> such file or directory
>
> Running NCL...
> xy01n.ncl: No such file or directory.
>
> ncl failed.
>
> I notice there is a // in the file location. When I look for the example
> file:
>
> smcc at jaguar:~$ locate xy01n.ncl
> /usr/share/ncl-6.4.0/lib/ncarg/nclex/xyplot/xy01n.ncl
>
> Is there a missing subdirectory in the call to the example file?
>
> Best fishes
> Sam
>
>
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