[ncl-talk] Ubuntu14.10 "setenv" package installation issue

Fri Nov 7 08:30:39 MST 2014

Dear  COULIBALY   AMADOU,

You may want to test and see if your variables are actually being set 
correctly.

About setting environment variables:
1. They can be OS dependent and/or shell dependent - which OS and shell 
script language are you using?

2. After you issue the "setenv" commands (whichever one you are using),
you can check to see if they were accepted correctly:

You can issue a command like:
*env *     (which should give you the list of currently set environment 
variables)
You can also issue a command like:
*cd   $NCARG_ROOT*     ( the $ forces the shell to use the value of the 
variable)

3. Previously set variables may be interfering with *your* variable - 
depending upon what other variables
were set and the *ORDER* in which they are invoked. You may want to look 
at $PATH and see what else is set.
Also, you cannot have an infinitely long PATH - if it is too long, the 
variables at the end of the PATH may be ignored.

4. Directory and file permissions may be causing a problem.
You may want to check the permissions and ownership of the :
executeable files
*NCARG_ROOT* directories
upper level directories

Mary Jane Saddington

On 11/7/2014 9:59 AM, Amadou Coulibaly wrote:
> Hi KEVIN,
>
> When I used the command "cd /usr/bin and ls -l ncl" I got this:
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5063552 Sep  8 11:25 ncl
>
> Should I bring both ncl and NCARG_ROOT to /usr/local/ncl_ncarg?
>
> Best
>
>
> On 7 November 2014 14:23, HAVENER, KEVIN F GS-12 USAF AFWA 14 WS/WXED 
> <kevin.havener at us.af.mil <mailto:kevin.havener at us.af.mil>> wrote:
>
>     Perhaps your ncl is symlinked from somewhere else to /usr/bin.
>
>     Cd to /usr/bin and "ls -l ncl".  You may see something (fore
>     example) like ncl -> /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-6.2.0/bin/ncl
>
>     In which case try setting your NCARG_ROOT to /usr/local/ncl_ncarg
>     or whatever directory ncl is symlinked to.
>
>     Kevin Havener
>
>     -----Original Message-----
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>     <mailto:ncl-talk-bounces at ucar.edu>] On Behalf Of Amadou Coulibaly
>     Sent: Friday, November 07, 2014 9:06 AM
>     To: ncl-talk at ucar.edu <mailto:ncl-talk at ucar.edu>
>     Subject: [ncl-talk] Ubuntu14.10 "setenv" package installation issue
>
>
>
>     Dear NCL users,
>
>
>     I still have the same problem when I tried to run ncl script, I
>     got this error message:
>
>     fatal:Could not open
>     ($NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl)
>     fatal:error at line 1 in file test1.ncl fatal:syntax error: line
>     -1 before or near
>
>
>     According to one of David's suggestions, I used the following
>     command: "which ncl" and I got this: /usr/bin/ncl
>
>
>     But when I tried to use the command "export NCARG_ROOT=/usr" or
>     "NCARG_ROOT=/usr ; export NCARG_ROOT"
>
>
>     And after that I tried to run my ncl script, I still have the same
>     error messages above in red colour.
>
>
>     How to solve this problem?--
>
>
>     Best regards
>
>      COULIBALY   AMADOU
>     PhD  Student  on  West  African  Climate  System (WACS)
>     FUTA - Federal  University  of  Technology of Akure, Nigeria
>
>
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>
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>
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> -- 
> *COULIBALY AMADOU *
> PhD Student  on  West  African  Climate  System (WACS)
> FUTA- Federal University  of Technology of Akure, Nigeria
>
> /Visiting Student - ///University of Cologne, Germany/
> //Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology/
> Pohligstr. 3 / Office 3.102
> D-50969 Köln
> /
> /
> _Project_: WASCAL(West African Science Service Centre on Climate 
> Change and Adapted Land Use)
> Phone:(+234) 810 795 2836 /(+223) 65 67 27 57 /(+226) 64 57 37 27 /+49 
> 15218352574
> E-mail: mpapin24 at gmail.com <mailto:mpapin24 at gmail.com>/ 
> coulibalya68 at yahoo.com <mailto:coulibalya68 at yahoo.com>
>
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>
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>
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> Roosevelt*/
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