Grads for Ubuntu Problem

[luis blacutt]

Hi Jason,

I think you are running on the same problem I run. You need to download the
data file

check this from http://www.iges.org/grads/downloads.html

Supplementary Files
The font and map files are supplementary data sets that are required in
order to run GrADS. Their default location is: /usr/local/lib/grads/. If you
do not have write permission for this directory you can place the files
elsewhere, but you must also change the environment variable GADDIR so the
GrADS executables will know where to find these files. You can download the
data files separately by clicking here:
*data.tar.Z*<ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/data.tar.Z>
 ** <ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/data.tar.Z>.

cd *<dirname>*
uncompress data.tar.Z
tar xvf data.tar

Regards
Luis

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Jason Snyder <jmssnyder at ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> I have grads on Ubuntu 9.10 but have been having problems with opening up
> netcdf files on it.  The program opens all right but I get the following
> message when I open a netcdf file:
>
> Config: v2.0.a7 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds hdf5
> geotiff
> Issue 'q config' command for more information.
> Landscape mode? ('n' for portrait):  no
> GX Package Initialization: Size = 8.5 11
> ga-> sdfopen uwnd.1998.nc
> Scanning self-describing file:  uwnd.1998.nc
> udunits(3): Couldn't open units database
> "/usr/local/lib/grads/udunits.dat": No such file or directory
> gadsdf: UDUNITS package initialization failure.
> ga->
>
> How do I resolve this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
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