Hi Jason,<div><br></div><div>I think you are running on the same problem I run. You need to download the data file</div><div><br></div><div>check this from <a href="http://www.iges.org/grads/downloads.html">http://www.iges.org/grads/downloads.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><p><span class="item12bold" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Supplementary Files<br>
</span>The font and map files are supplementary data sets that are required in order to run GrADS. Their default location is: <code><span class="code" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; ">/usr/local/lib/grads/. </span></code>If you do not have write permission for this directory you can place the files elsewhere, but you must also change the environment variable <code class="code" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; ">GADDIR</code> so the GrADS executables will know where to find these files. You can download the data files separately by clicking here: <a href="ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/data.tar.Z"><code class="code" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span class="plaintext" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "><b>data.tar.Z</b></span></code></a> <a href="ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/data.tar.Z"><code class="code" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span class="plaintext" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "><b></b></span></code></a>.</p>
<blockquote><p class="code" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, mono; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; ">cd <i><dirname></i><br>uncompress data.tar.Z<br>tar xvf data.tar<br></p>
</blockquote></span><div>Regards</div><div>Luis</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Jason Snyder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmssnyder@ucdavis.edu">jmssnyder@ucdavis.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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:<br>
<br>Config: v2.0.a7 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds hdf5 geotiff<br>
Issue 'q config' command for more information.<br>Landscape mode? ('n' for portrait): no<br>GX Package Initialization: Size = 8.5 11 <br>ga-> sdfopen <a href="http://uwnd.1998.nc" target="_blank">uwnd.1998.nc</a><br>
Scanning self-describing file: <a href="http://uwnd.1998.nc" target="_blank">uwnd.1998.nc</a><br>
udunits(3): Couldn't open units database "/usr/local/lib/grads/udunits.dat": No such file or directory<br>gadsdf: UDUNITS package initialization failure.<br>ga-> <br><br>How do I resolve this problem?<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Jason<br>
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