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> Dear Sir/Madam > > I am interested to install and use netCFD. I am planning to install > various libraries (netCFD, C compiler, G95, MPI and NCAR) which are > necessary to run WRF-3. I am using Red Hat Linux (ver 5). > > I would highly appreciate it if you can answer my following questions: > > - Do you recommend me to install netCFD-4 or earlier versions (3.6.2)? Howdy Jafaar! Since you mention MPI, I would note that only netCDF-4/HDF5 files have the ability to use parallel I/O, so perhaps netCDF-4 is the choice for you. It is fully backward compatible anyway. (And there is also a 3.6.3 release after the 3.6.2 release.) > > - How can configure netCFD after I unzip and tar? I read > "http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/netcdf-install.pdf" > > But it is not clear for me how I can do configure > > "./configure cc=gcc cxx=++F90=ifort f77=1" what does this mean? No idea that that means. Where did you get it? See here: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/netcdf-install/Quick-Instructions.html You could also wait a few weeks for someone to add this to a red hat repository and then update via whatever package management system you are using. > I look forward to hearing from you > > regards > > Jaafar > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: FRL-611318 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed