Re: INSTALLING NCARG-4.4.1

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Samuel Hassid wrote:

> I am new in installing NCARG - mainly to visualise the results of RAMS.
>
> I have installed NCARG in a LINUX x86_64 GNU/Linux system but I do not mange
> to run the examples in lib/ncarg/examples directory (the ones like cpex08.f)
> as it is suggested in the INSTALL_README file. I do manage to compile the
> cpex* files - but after running the ctrans -d X11 cpex08.ncgm command I get
> an empty black Xwindow with something looking like a skull in the left upper
> corner. For many of the cpex0* examples.

Dear Samuel,

In order to see a picture in the ctrans window, you may need to click
in the middle of the window with your left mouse button. You need to
continue clicking in the middle of the window to advance the frame,
until you get to the last frame, and then the window will go away
after the last mouse click.

> On the other hand, I have no problems running the results of RAMS and REVU,
> but when I run the example's result with ./idt gmeta (the output of the RAMS
> program) I get a window, but when I click the animate button, I only get 9
> frames (from 12:00 to 20:00) whereas there are 25 frames. (from 12:00 till
> 12:00 the next day). Anything I can do about it - or should I consider it a
> RAMS rather than an NCARG problem ?

This sounds like a RAMS problem, but it's possible it is an NCARG
problem. If there really are 25 frames in the file, but you are only
seeing 9 of them, then there may be a problem in the RAMS code that is
not properly advancing each frame. If you want to personally email me
your gmeta file, we can take a look at it.

> Note that the computer runs with lib64 rather than lib and I did not use HDF4
> as recommended. I was wondering if there is anything I can do on that, since
> RAMS asks us to compile HDF5 and there may be incompatibilities when both
> HDF5 and HDF4 are on teh same computer.

I didn't think there were incompatibilities in having both HDF 4 and 5
installed on your system, but I'm not familiar enough with HDF 5 to
comfortably make this statement. Can anybody else help here?

However, you only need the HDF4 support built-in if you need to use
ctrans, ictrans and/or idt to save your NCGM images as HDF4 images.
HDF4 images.

--Mary
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Received on Mon Jan 08 2007 - 11:41:13 MST