Grads for Ubuntu Problem

[luis blacutt]

Have you unziped the file and installed following the instructions?
About the GADDIR file don't worry, I haven't made anything with it and still
works fine

Luis

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Jason Snyder <jmssnyder at ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> 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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