Re: Fwd: installation question

> Dear NCARG users,
> Before I set up MM5, I tried to set up the needed software NCARG, The
> problem is: everytime I typed ./INSTALL in the terminal after I had entered
> the NCARG dictionary, a series of choices appeard, each contains several
> items. I tried almost every way to get it through but eventually failed.
> What should I do? Is there any detailed I had omissed? Could you please how
> could I sucessfully set up NCARG( NCAR Graphics)? Is there a more detailed
> NCARG set-up tutorial available?
> This problem has bothered me for quite a few days, I am looking forward to
> your kind response. Thanks a lot.
>
> Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
> Box602
> Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210044.
> China
> mayf21044_at_yahoo.com.cn
> Tel:(86) 13851904175
> (86) 25-58698355

Hi,

It would help if you could tell us what kind of error message you are
getting from the INSTALL program.

However, the INSTALL program is nothing more than a script that asks
where you want the software installed, checks that you have enough
disk space, and then executes "tar -xvf" commands on four tar files to
untar the software in the chosen directory.

If you want to bypass the INSTALL program, *and* you are confident
that you have enough disk space to install the software, then you can
do the following:

    1. Decide what directory you want the software under. (Let's assume
       you decide "/usr/local", which means the software will be installed
       to "/usr/local/bin", "/usr/local/lib", "/usr/local/include",
       and "/usr/local/man".)

    2. Cd to this directory ("/usr/local") and untar the four tar
       files.

       As an example, I'm going to use "/usr/home/person/INSTALL" as
       your INSTALL directory, which means there should be another
       directory like "/usr/home/person/LINUX_PC" with four tar
       files in it: BIN.TAR, INCLUDE.TAR, LIB.TAR, and MAN.TAR.

       To untar these:

          cd /usr/local
          tar -xvf /usr/home/person/LINUX_PC/BIN.TAR
          tar -xvf /usr/home/person/LINUX_PC/INCLUDE.TAR
          tar -xvf /usr/home/person/LINUX_PC/LIB.TAR
          tar -xvf /usr/home/person/LINUX_PC/MAN.TAR

       Note that "LINUX_PC" is an example only. If you have a Sun
       system, then this directory may be called something like
       "Solaris_sun4".

    3. Setenv the NCARG_ROOT environment variable to this parent path
       ("/usr/local" in this example), and make sure $NCARG_ROOT/bin
       is on your search path.

Good luck,

--Mary
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Received on Wed Apr 11 2007 - 20:13:37 MDT