[gradsusr] GrADS sdfopen problem

Jennifer Adams jma at cola.iges.org
Fri Apr 18 14:03:10 EDT 2014


Make sure your build of GrADS is not linked with udunits2 -- GrADS requires the older version 1. What do you get when you type 'ldd /usr/bin/grads/' ? 
--Jennifer

On Apr 18, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Djordje Romanic wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My grads is installed in /usr/bin (that's what command 'which grads' is showing me). I have put these 3 files in that folder but  the same error message appears:  
> gadsdf: UDUNITS package initialization failure. 
> 
> I also set the environment variable: 'export GADDIR=/usr/bin'.
> 
> Any other suggestions? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Djordje
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Carlos Batista <krlosbatist at gmail.com> wrote:
> put these 3 files in the folder where you installed the grads!
> 
> 
> 2014-04-17 21:32 GMT-03:00 Djordje Romanic <djordje8 at gmail.com>:
> Hi, 
> 
> When I try to open a NetCDF file in grads using 'sdfopen' command, I get the following error message:
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Scanning self-describing file:  1958_1965.nc
> gadsdf: UDUNITS package initialization failure.
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> where 1958_1965.nc is the name my NetCDF file.
> 
> I tried to locate udunits packages using 'locate udunits' and then to set GADDIR to that destination using 'export' command (bash shell, Ubuntu 12.04). It didn't help. The same message appears. Could you help me with it please? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Djordje Romanic
> 
> 
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