[ncl-install] ncl not seeing NCARG_ROOT?

[Dave Burns]

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, no surprises or clues. Here is
the output I got:

(0) /usr
/usr
NCARG_ROOT=/usr

Maybe I will try the precompiled binary.
cheers,
Dave

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 1:38 PM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate <
dave.allured at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On my institutional system, the sys admins will sometimes put NCL inside a
> wrapper script, invisible to casual use.  This is done specifically to be
> able to redefine $NCARG_ROOT and make other possible changes, to make a
> working NCL.  You might check to see if something like this is active in
> your ubuntu install, and not working right.  The "where ncl" command may be
> useful.
>
> You could try a test script with these tests, without first trying to
> "load" anything.
>
>     print (getenv ("NCARG_ROOT"))
>     system ("echo $NCARG_ROOT")
>     system ("env | grep NCARG")
>
> --Dave A.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 4:11 PM, Kevin Hallock via ncl-install <
> ncl-install at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> Are you using the ncl-ncarg package provided via apt on Ubuntu? I just
>> tried running the same ‘load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscri
>> pts/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_nca
>> rg-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 $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscrip
>> ts/csm/gsn_code.ncl
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 490093 Jan 28  2016 /usr/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/
>> gsn_code.ncl
>> >user at host:~/Downloads/1200/0214$ head  $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscrip
>> ts/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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