[gradsusr] problem with grads installation

[Jennifer Adams]

On Feb 15, 2013, at 1:27 PM, samar aseeri wrote:

> Hi Jennifer,
> 
> Thank you for your quick response. Actually, one of our system users needs this version precisely because some of his netcdf files are handled in this version quite nicely than the latest version.
Wrong. There are numerous problems with the netcdf interface in version 1.9, as well as memory leaks. It is a mistake to use this version with netcdf files.
> Let me know if there is any hope of having this version built on an X86 machine.
There is no hope at all. 
--Jennifer

> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> From: Jennifer Adams <jma at cola.iges.org>
> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org> 
> Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 20:57
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] problem with grads installation
> 
> Version 1.9 is so old and not being actively supported anymore. It looks like the X11 interface may be the problem since GrADS started up but dumped core when it tried to intialize the graphics. Try using the most recent version instead. Please see http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html .
> --Jennifer
> 
> 
> On Feb 15, 2013, at 12:49 PM, samar aseeri wrote:
> 
>> Dear users,
>> 
>> I'm trying to install the older version 1.9 of GrADs on REDHAT-6  (64-bit machine). When I unzip the pre-compiled version (grads-1.9b4-linuxRH7.1.tar.gz) and tried to execute form the GrADs bin directory I get the following error:
>> 
>> > path/bin$ ./gradsnc
>> 
>> Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 1.9b4
>> Copyright (c) 1988-2005 by Brian Doty and IGES 
>> Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
>> Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)
>> GrADS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
>> See file COPYRIGHT for more information
>> 
>> Config: v1.9b4 32-bit little-endian readline sdf/xdf netcdf lats printim
>> 
>> Issue 'q config' command for more information.
>> 
>> Landscape mode? (no for portrait):  
>> GX Package Initialization: Size = 11 8.5 
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>> 
>> 
>> Please suggest me the solution because I'm new to GrADs. It would be useful if you could guide with the installation steps including how to set the paths. Please note that my system is 64-bit machine.
>> 
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> 
>> Samar
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