Grads for Ubuntu Problem

[Jason Snyder]

I am still ahving the same problems even after downloading data.tar.  Where
do I find the variable GADDIR?

Thanks,

jason

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:49 AM, luis blacutt <luis.blacutt at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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