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Hi John, > I desperately need your help about the install of your netcdf > package in our Sun station. I am currently visiting France from Australia > and plan to do some research in the South Indian Ocean. I need to use a > CSIRO made computer program to do the work but that program uses some of > your netcdf subroutines. Therefore, I have to install your netcdf in the > Sun station here in France, but unfortunately, they don't have special > computer person to do this (I don't know how to install your netcdf > myself). They have a computing lady who tried to install it. However, it > seems to me she didn't do it correctly, because it is obviously not > working. Could you please come to our Sun station and have a look and help > to install it properly. You can login by typing 192.134.152.99, login, *** > lady installed your netcdf there. Please give a help. I very much > appreciate. OK, it is installed in /usr/local/NETCDF/, where lib/, bin/, and man/ directories now contain the library, executables, and documentation. I tried installing it in the directory you had already untarred, but there was something wrong with the directory permissions that prevented me from creating files in subdirectories. So I just ran the following commands to untar a new copy, make it, test it, and install it: % cd /usr/local/NETCDF % tar xf netcdf.tar % cd netcdf-232pl2 % ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/NETCDF % make all test install and everything seemed to work fine. Changing the value of "prefix" above will cause it to be installed somewhere else than /usr/local/NETCDF. I left the old untarred copy in /usr/local/NETCDF/netcdf-232pl2-, so you should probably delete that when you determine things are working OK. --Russ ______________________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu