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>To: address@hidden >From: address@hidden (Kretzschmar) >Subject: netCDF 2.4.3 installation >Organization: . >Keywords: 199706201314.HAA02210 Hi Klaus, > we have encountered some problem installing netCDF on our PC (486, > Linux) and would be very glad, if you could give us an advice. It does > not seem to be a big problem: after expanding the file netcdf2.4.3.tar > (I don't know, if this name is original) we proceeded with > > configure > make all > make test > make install > > The latter command led to an error. The last output statements of > `make install` were as follows: > > make[2] : Entering directory `/home/kkre/netcdf-2.4.3/src/ncdump` > case "catman" in \ > '') : true ;; \ > *) catman -w -M /home/kkre/netcdf-2.4.3/man;; \ > esac > catman: illegal option -- w > usage: catman [-dhV] [-M manpath] [section] ... > -d --debug produce debugging info. > -M --manpath path set search path for manual pages to `path'. > -V --version show version. > -h --help show this usage message. > make[2]: *** [/home/kkre/netcdf-2.4.3/man/whatis] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kkre/netcdf-2.4.3/src/ncdump' > make[1]: *** [installed_manuals] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kkre/netcdf-2.4.3/src/ncdump' > make: *** [ncdump/install] Error 1 > > Should we just omit the option `-w` or should we change it ? Yes, just omit it. This is the last step in the install, and is only necessary to provide formatted man files for quicker access, so they don't need to be run through nroff/troff. There is now a newer version of netCDF (version 3.3.1), available from ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf.tar.Z and also a binary release for Linux_2.0_i586 platforms from ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/binary/linux_2.0-i586/netcdf-3.3.1.tar.Z If you want to read about what changed with the new release, see http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/announce-3.3.html --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu