<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"> Jason, I'd suggest you to follow these directions:<div><br></div><div> <font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1) Download and untar grads to a directory of your preference, for example /usr/local:</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap; ">> cd /usr/local</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap; ">> sudo tar -zxf grads-bin-x.xxxxxx.tar.gz (x "varies" according to GrADS version)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;
"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> 2) Create a directory to hold "data.tar.Z":</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; "> cd /usr/local/grads-x.xxx</span></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; ">> sudo mkdir data</span></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; ">> cd data</span></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; ">> sudo tar -zxf data.tar.Z</span></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; white-space: normal; font-size: medium; "><div><br></div></span></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap; "> 3) Add the following lines to your "/etc/.bashrc" or "/etc/profile" if you want all users to access GrADS by typing "grads" on terminal:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; ">#--- GRADS ----</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; ">export GADDIR=/usr/local/grads-x.xxx/data</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size:
medium; ">export GASCRP=/usr/local/grads-x.xxx/lib (this is optional, if you prefer to have a directory to run scripts from - create it just as described on Step 2)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; ">export GRADS=/usr/local/grads-x.xxx/bin</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; ">export PATH=$PATH:$GRADS</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; "><br></span></span></div><div><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Adapt the commands to your system when necessary and it should work.</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Best regards,</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:
small;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Thiago.</span></font></span></div><div><br>--- On <b>Sun, 28/2/10, Jason Snyder <i><jmssnyder@UCDAVIS.EDU></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Jason Snyder <jmssnyder@UCDAVIS.EDU><br>Subject: Installing GrADS on Ubuntu 9.10<br>To: GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT<br>Date: Sunday, 28 February, 2010, 18:16<br><br><div id="yiv1219459080">Can you help give me information on how to install GrADS on Ubuntu? I tried doing it on my own but am encountering numerous problems. Can anyone who had installed GrADS on Ubuntu 9.10 give me detailed instructions on how to go about doing this including setting environments, etc.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><br>Jason<br>
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