<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 11, 2014, at 6:54 AM, Mogesh Naidoo wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi folks,<br><br>I'm having trouble getting GrADS running on my new workstation.<br>I installed using: sudo apt-get install grads.<br></div></blockquote>This doesn't work. The udunits2 library does not work with GrADS. Try using our pre-compiled binary executables instead. </div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>This is my first attempt on this workstation so went the path of least resistance.<br></div></blockquote><a href="http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html">http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html</a> </div><div>Downloading a tarball and unpacking it will be a bit more work than 'sudo apt-get install grads' but still better than building from source. </div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Unfortunately I find trouble loading a sdf file: <br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote>Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.1<br>Copyright (c) 1988-2011 by Brian Doty and the<br>Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)<br>GrADS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY<br>See file COPYRIGHT for more information<br><br>Config: v2.0.1 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds hdf5 opendap-grids,stn geotiff shapefile<br>Issue 'q config' command for more detailed configuration information<br>Landscape mode? ('n' for portrait): <br>GX Package Initialization: Size = 11 8.5 <br>ga-> sdfopen CMIP5_grid.nc <br>Scanning self-describing file: CMIP5_grid.nc<br>gadsdf: UDUNITS package initialization failure.<br>ga-> <br><<<br><br>So I check and see my system has UDUNITS2 install, but I guess this isn't the one GrADS likes to use (xml!).<br>I see my installed GrADs ancilliary data is in /usr/share/grads (fonts etc).<br>I set GADDIR and UDUNITS_PATH in my env appropriately.<br>I also see that udunits.dat isn't in that path for some reason.<br>I download the data.tar.gz and take the udunits.dat from there and place in the path.<br>I source .bashrc/close and open terminal.<br><br>I start up GrADs and try to open the file and get the same error. <br>Note the error says UDUNITS package initialization failure, but nothing about udunits.dat.<br>So this might not be the problem at all.<br>Although there's no info on the failure itself.<br><br>regards,<br>Mogesh.<br><br><br>-- <br>This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. <br>The full disclaimer details can be found at <a href="http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html">http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html</a>.<br><br>This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, <br>and is believed to be clean.<br><br>Please consider the environment before printing this email.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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