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Javier, > To: address@hidden > From: Javier Maldonado Miranda <address@hidden> > Subject: installation question about netcdf-2.4.2 > Organization: Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra > Keywords: 199810141118.FAA20548 In the above message, you wrote: > I've just installed your program netcdf-2.4.2 on my machine. It's > an Ultra SPARC 10 and I'm using Workshop package from SUN as cc and > fortran compilers. > > I've runned the test process and it gives no errors. My problem comes > when I make the install option. It seems it's working fine but gives > one error wich is this one: > > localidad es es, ruta-man no válida /usr/local/netcdf-2.4.2/man/es > > (translation from Spanish: place es es, not valid man-route > /usr/local/netcdf-2.4.2/man/es ) > > As you may see my machine gives the messages in Spanish (option > es). My question is if I'm getting this error because some of my > enviroment variables are set to Spanish. Do I have to set all of them > to C?. I'm afraid I've never delt with installing the netCDF package under the Spanish option -- so all I can do is make some educated guesses. The manual pages for the netCDF package should have been installed under $(MANDIR), where $(MANDIR) is a sub-directory of the directory that contains the installed netCDF package. The value for $(MANDIR) is set in the file "macros.make" in the top-level source directory of the netCDF package. For example, if the installation directory were "/opt/netcdf", then the manual pages would be found under "/opt/netcdf/man" in the subdirectories "man1" and "man3". The solaris "man" utility uses the environment variable MANPATH to locate manual pages. So a user of the previous example might include the directory "/opt/netcdf/man" in their MANPATH environment variable in order to automatically locate the netCDF manual pages. It appears to me that either your MANPATH contains the directory "/usr/local/netcdf-2.4.2/man/es" (which doesn't exist) or that the man(1) utility is automatically appending the suffix "/es" to the paths in the MANPATH environment variable in order to locate manual pages in Spanish (and those directories don't exist). I suggest setting your locale to "C" (see the locale(1) utility) and/or changing the value of your MANPATH environment variable. Please let me know if this helps. -------- Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>