[ncl-talk] NCL installation

Anahita Amiri Farahani aamir003 at ucr.edu
Wed Oct 10 18:51:23 MDT 2018


I removed  all the "export DISPLAY" lines, and echo $DISPLAY does not show
anything.
this  one: ng4ex xy05n -clean -W png works but when I try to test this
one: ng4ex
xy01n -clean I get the error. And I have not installed NETCDF.

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 4:55 PM Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate <
dave.allured at noaa.gov> wrote:

> Mac OS should be setting DISPLAY automatically when you open a new
> terminal window.  It looks like you might be overwriting the valid
> setting.  Try removing all the "export DISPLAY" lines, then open a new
> terminal window and see if that helps.  "echo $DISPLAY" to see the default
> setting, if any.
>
> --Dave
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 5:21 PM, Anahita Amiri Farahani <aamir003 at ucr.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I tried to install NCL 6.5.0 on my Mac computer and test it but I got
>> this error:
>>
>> GKS ERROR NUMBER -208 ISSUED FROM SUBROUTINE GOPWK :
>>
>>  --X driver error: DISPLAY environment variable not set
>> In the .bash_profile I put this:
>>
>> export DISPLAY=:0.0
>>
>> #export DISPLAY=128.117.14.12:0
>>
>> export DISPLAY=localhost:13.0
>> Could you please help me?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ana
>>
>
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