[ferret_users] Re: Probmlem in running FERRET in the RH Linux 5.3 environment

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Ansley Manke wrote:
> Hello,
> If you look at the file ferret_paths_bash_template from the Ferret 
> distribution, you'll see a few lines at the end having to do with the 
> palette and fonts files. You have the environment variable for the 
> palettes, but not one for the fonts. The error message you are seeing 
> indicates that you don't have the PLOTFONTS variable defined.
>
>  export PLOTFONTS="$FER_DIR/ppl/fonts"
>
> This should point to the directory which contains the file fondat.dat 
> as well as the files fnt01.chr, ...
>
> If you add this to your .bashrc file, I think you will be in business. 
> Or put all of these definitions into a ferret_paths script and execute 
> that from your .bashrc.
>
> Ansley
>
>
> Dr.C.Shaji wrote:
> > Dear Ms. Ansley and All;
> >
> > Please note that I am having a small problem in running FERRET in a 
> > 64-bit
> > RH Linux 5.3 running machine.
> >
> > Let me go into the details.
> >
> > 1) My login shell is bash.
> >
> > [root@circulation ~]# echo $SHELL
> > /bin/bash
> >
> > The ferret path and the environment variables are set in my .bashrc file
> > as follows:
> >
> > #---------------------------------------
> > # Path for FERRET
> > #---------------------------------------
> > PATH=$PATH:/usr/local:/usr/local/ferret:/usr/local/ferret/bin
> > PATH=$PATH:/home/data/fer_dsets/
> > export FER_GO=". /usr/local/ferret/go /usr/local/ferret/examples
> > /usr/local/ferret/contrib"
> > export FER_GRIDS=". /home/data/fer_dsets/grids"
> > export FER_EXTERNAL_FUNCTIONS="/usr/local/ferret/ext_func/libs"
> > export FER_PALETTE=". /usr/local/ferret/ppl"
> > export FER_DSETS="/home/data/fer_dsets"
> > export FER_DATA=". /home/data/fer_dsets/data /usr/local/ferret/go
> > /usr/local/ferret/examples /usr/local/ferret/contrib"
> > export FER_DESCR=". /home/data/fer_dsets/descr"
> > export FER_WEB_BROWSER="netscape -ncols 60"
> > export FER_DIR="/usr/local/ferret"
> > export SET_FER="/usr/local"
> >
> > PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/ferret_paths;export PATH
> >
> > After login, I ran FERRET in the "bash" shell itself and did an example
> > plot given in the tutorial.I get the following error, instead of 
> > getting a
> > plot.
> >
> > [root@circulation ~]# which ferret
> > /usr/local/ferret/bin/ferret
> > [root@circulation ~]# ferret
> >         NOAA/PMEL TMAP
> >         FERRET v6.2
> >         Linux(g77) 2.6.9-22. - 05/19/09
> >          2-Jul-09 21:58
> >
> > yes? PLOT/i=1:10  1/i
> > open: No such file or directory
> > apparent state: unit 10 named  /fondat.dat
> > last format: (i1)
> > lately reading sequential formatted external IO
> > Aborted
> >
> > Please explain me why it is so. Can I run FERRET in the "bash" shell?
> > How can fix this error?
> >
> > 2) The second thing I did is changed the shell to C and then repeated 
> > the
> > above, which also resulted with the same error.
> >
> > [root@circulation ~]# csh
> > [root@circulation ~]# ferret
> >         NOAA/PMEL TMAP
> >         FERRET v6.2
> >         Linux(g77) 2.6.9-22. - 05/19/09
> >          2-Jul-09 22:17
> >
> > yes? PLOT/i=1:10  1/i
> > open: No such file or directory
> > apparent state: unit 10 named  /fondat.dat
> > last format: (i1)
> > lately reading sequential formatted external IO
> > Abort
> >
> > 3) The third thing what I did is execute the ".cshrc" file in the C 
> > shell.
> > Then repeated the above procedure. This time I got the required plot in
> > the plot window without any error.
> >
> > [root@circulation ~]# source .cshrc
> > replacing ferret path
> > [root@circulation ~]# ferret
> >         NOAA/PMEL TMAP
> >         FERRET v6.2
> >         Linux(g77) 2.6.9-22. - 05/19/09
> >          2-Jul-09 22:23
> >
> > yes? PLOT/i=1:10  1/i
> >
> > In the ".cshrc" file, FERRET path is given as follows.
> > ############################################################################### 
> >
> > # FERRET PATH
> > ############################################################################### 
> >
> > setenv SET_FER /usr/local
> > setenv FER_DIR /usr/local/ferret
> > source $SET_FER/ferret_paths
> >
> > 4)
> > Please also note that earlier I have installed FERRET in a 32-bit Fedora
> > Core machine. There also I encountered with the above problems.
> >
> > Perhaps I may be making some mistakes in giving the correct FERRET path.
> >
> > Please suggest me whether Ferret can be run only under C shell. What
> > additional changes I need to follow to run FERRET without executing
> > ".cshrc" file all the time.
> >
> > I would highly appreciate an early reply from any of the Ferret team.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > C. Shaji.
> >
> >
> >