[ncl-talk] NCL installation

[Anahita Amiri Farahani]

Yes, for the first step I installed XQuartz.

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 6:25 PM Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Did you explicitly install XQuartz? -- modern Macs don't come with an X11
> environment preinstalled. That said, I can't recall just how problems
> manifest if XQuartz is not present -- I don't remember if its that error
> message or not.  If you have installed it, then let me know -- I look to
> see where this message originates.
>
>     https://www.xquartz.org/index.html
>
> Rick
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 7:16 PM Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 6:52 PM Anahita Amiri Farahani <aamir003 at ucr.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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