[ncl-install] ng4ex directory error still there?

[Mary Haley]

John,

Sorry if this has already been answered. I'm going through some old emails
that look like they haven't been responded to yet.

The likely cause of this problem is that your environment is not set up
properly.

At a minimum, in order to run ncl, you must have NCARG_ROOT set to the
parent directory directory of where the NCL software was installed, AND,
$NCARG_ROOT/bin must be part of your PATH environment variable.

When you use apt-get, which is not supported by us, the installation gets
split up over two parent directories, and hence you also need to set
NCARG_NCARG, which I believe apt-get does for you.

The problem comes in when you try to install a new version of NCL.  When
you do this, you must update NCARG_ROOT and PATH to point to the new
directories, but you must also make sure you don't have the old NCARG_NCARG
still set.

In order to see if your environment is wrong, you can type the following
commands on the UNIX command line:

which ncl
env | grep NCARG
ncl -V

--Mary


On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:58 PM, Trostel, John M. via ncl-install <
ncl-install at ucar.edu> wrote:

> I should add that one install was using apt-get install, giving me a 6.4
> NCL, while the other was using a precompiled binary, giving me a 6.5 NCL.
> I used the ncl_ncarg-6.5.0-SuSE12_64bit_nodap_gnu730.tar.gz file...
>
>
> --
> John Trostel
> Director - Severe Storms Research Center
> Georgia Tech Research Institute
> Atlanta, GA 30332-0857
> ------------------------------
> *From:* ncl-install <ncl-install-bounces at ucar.edu> on behalf of John
> Trostel via ncl-install <ncl-install at ucar.edu>
> *Sent:* Friday, September 14, 2018 10:43:10 PM
> *To:* ncl-install
> *Subject:* [ncl-install] ng4ex directory error still there?
>
> I installed ncl two ways and both ways resulted in a directory error when
> running the "ng4ex xy05n -clean" test.
>
> In both cases it failed to find the xy05n test.
>
> Running directly as suggested: "ncl $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclex/xyplot/xy01n.ncl"
> however works.
>
> Is the ng4ex script still broken?
>
> John Trostel
> jtrostel at gmail.com
>
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