[ncl-talk] ncl installation using homebrew

[Thomas Tobian]

Interesting!! It is worth a try. yet  It's better to post
this information to ncl installation mlist instead of ncl-talk.

Cheers,
Thomas



On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, Ryan Pavlick <ryan.pavlick at gmail.com> wrote:

> I created a homebrew cask for easy installation of ncl on OS X.
>
> To use it, you first need to install homebrew by pasting the following
> line in to your Terminal (more info at http://brew.sh):
>
> ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
>
>
> Then, install caskroom (http://caskroom.io/), followed by ncl:
>
> brew install caskroom/cask/brew-caskbrew cask install ncar-ncl
>
> This will:
> 1) Download the appropriate NCL binary for your version of OS X from the
> Earth System Grid
> 2) Check for homebrew dependencies, gcc and xquartz, and install them if
> not found
> 3) Install ncl to /usr/local/ncl-6.3.0
>
> A message will appear telling you how to:
> 1) add $NCARG_ROOT/bin to your $PATH
> 2) add libgfortran.3.dylib to your $DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> After that, type ncl at the command line and you should be good to go.
>
> You can also easily install other related tools using:
>
> brew install homebrew/science/cdo
> brew install homebrew/science/nco
> brew cask install panoplybrew cask install qlnetcdf
> brew install imagemagick
>
> For the curious, the source code for the homebrew cask script is here:
> https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/ncar-ncl.rb
>
> - Ryan
>
>
>
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