[ncl-talk] ncl installation using homebrew

[Saji Hameed]

Kyle,

Thanks. I did not notice that at all, and have been doing the login process
for every download all this time. Now I see that I need not login, and that
makes it nicer.

BTW - enjoyed reading your article in Physics Today (
http://physicstoday-info.org/1Y69-3FDPU-E1O9Y9-1MBCYN-1/c.aspx)

saji

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Kyle Griffin <ksgriffin2 at wisc.edu> wrote:

> Saji,
>
> The login requirement for ESG was removed a while ago...you shouldn't need
> to provide your login for downloading NCL via any method anymore.
>
> Kyle
> On Jun 3, 2015 11:01 PM, "Saji Hameed" <saji.nh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ryan,
>>
>> This sound quite cool. I have a question.
>>
>> > 1) Download the appropriate NCL binary for your version of OS X from
>> the Earth System Grid
>>
>> Does it bypass the need to have an account in ESG?  I thought that one
>> needed to login to ESG prior to downloading
>> products out there?  Or does the installation ask for login credentials?
>>
>> cheers,
>> saji
>>
>> Saji N Hameed,
>> Environmental Informatics,
>> University of Aizu, Tsuruga, Ikki-machi,
>> Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima 965-8580,
>> Japan
>>
>> Tel: +81242 37-2736
>> Fax:+81242 37-2760
>>  email: saji at u-aizu.ac.jp
>>  url: http://enformtk.u-aizu.ac.jp
>>  bib: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9188-2009
>> code: https://github.com/sajinh
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:49 AM, 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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