NETGENDIR variable is not set

[Stepan Roucka]

Binary package hint: netgen

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick
package netgen: 4.9.12.dfsg-3ubuntu1

netgen doesn't start after installation:
$ netgen
NETGEN-4.9.12
Developed at RWTH Aachen University, Germany
and Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Including OpenCascade geometry kernel
Error in Tcl-Script:
result = couldn't read file "./ng.tcl": no such file or directory

Make sure to set environment variable NETGENDIR to directory containing ng.tcl

NETGENDIR should be set to /usr/share/netgen
$ NETGENDIR=/usr/share/netgen netgen
NETGEN-4.9.12
Developed at RWTH Aachen University, Germany
and Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Including OpenCascade geometry kernel
Parsing ng.tcl
optfile ./ng.opt does not exist - using default values

[Diederik van Lierop (mail-diedenrezi)]

This issue is rearing it's ugly head again in Oneiric:

diederik@diederik-desktop:~$ netgen
NETGEN-4.9.13
Developed at RWTH Aachen University, Germany
and Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Including OpenCascade geometry kernel
Error in Tcl-Script:
result = couldn't read file "./ng.tcl": no such file or directory

Make sure to set environment variable NETGENDIR to directory containing ng.tcl

[మంగిపూడి కోదండరామ్ (Mangipudi Kodanda Ram) (kodanda)]

Same here again in 12.04

me@mkrnb$ NETGENDIR=/usr/share/netgen; optirun netgen
NETGEN-4.9.13
Developed at RWTH Aachen University, Germany
and Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Including OpenCascade geometry kernel
Error in Tcl-Script:
result = couldn't read file "./ng.tcl": no such file or directory

Make sure to set environment variable NETGENDIR to directory containing ng.tcl