[ncl-install] ncl not seeing NCARG_ROOT?

[Kevin Hallock]

Hi Dave,

Are you using the ncl-ncarg package provided via apt on Ubuntu? I just tried running the same ‘load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"’ command on an Ubuntu 16.04 system using NCL 6.3.0 from the ncl-ncarg apt package and experienced the same error.

I was, however, able to successfully run the “load” command on the same machine using one of our precompiled binaries <http://ncl.ucar.edu/Download/> (specifically ncl_ncarg-6.4.0-Debian8.6_64bit_gnu492.tar.gz for Ubuntu 16.04).

I’m not sure why the ncl-ncarg package seems to be broken, but unfortunately we are not the maintainers of that package. If you continue to experience issues like this, I would strongly recommend using either a precompiled NCL binary <http://ncl.ucar.edu/Download/> or installing NCL via conda <http://ncl.ucar.edu/Download/conda.shtml>.

Additionally, the ncl-ncarg package provides NCL v6.3.0, which was released in March 2015. Both of the alternative installation methods I linked to currently offer NCL v6.4.0 (released February 2017) and will also offer NCL v6.5.0 for download when it is released in the near future.

I hope this helps!
Kevin

> On Feb 16, 2018, at 3:36 PM, Dave Burns via ncl-install <ncl-install at ucar.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> Executing ncl on a newly installed ubuntu box and an old ncl file that used to work generates this error:
> >fatal:Could not open ($NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl)
> >fatal:error at line 2 in file proj1.ncl
> 
> That's odd, because NCARG_ROOT is defined and that file is openable and has permissive permissions for all users:
> >user at host:~/Downloads/1200/0214$ echo $NCARG_ROOT
> /usr
> >user at host:~/Downloads/1200/0214$ ls -la $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 490093 Jan 28  2016 /usr/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl
> >user at host:~/Downloads/1200/0214$ head  $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl
> ;
> ;      $Id: gsn_code.ncl,v 1.238.4.3 2010-05-06 17:13:26 haley Exp $
> ;;;;;
> 
> So I am confused. The only way "could not open" would make sense was if ncl was opening the file for write access, which still doesn't make sense.
> 
> 
> Here are the first lines from the ncl file:
> 
> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"      ; These four libraries are automatically
> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"       ; loaded from NCL V6.4.0 onward.
> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"   ; No need for user to explicitly load.
> 
> 
> How do I fix this?
> thanks,
> Dave
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