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Hello, It appears that you need to install the 'm4' software. This is used to generate the manpages. Everything else looks great; once m4 is installed you should be able to install netcdf successfully! It looks like netcdf itself (the library and utilities) compiled successfully. Have a good day, -Ward > Hi sir > I need NetCDF for WRF , I first got zlib and HDF5 totally as you mentioned > here > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/netcdf-install/Quick-Instructions.html > > and "make check " passed without error ...but in "make install" i got > these errors: please help me > > nazanin@barashka:~/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2$ make install > Making install in include > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/include' > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/include' > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. > /bin/mkdir -p '/home/nazanin/local/include' > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 netcdf.h '/home/nazanin/local/include' > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/include' > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/include' > Making install in h5_test > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/h5_test' > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/h5_test' > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/h5_test' > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/h5_test' > Making install in libdispatch > make[1]: Entering directory > `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/libdispatch' > make[2]: Entering directory > `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/libdispatch' > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/libdispatch' > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/libdispatch' > Making install in libsrc > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/libsrc' > m4 -DAPI=C -DNETCDF4=TRUE ../man4/netcdf.m4 >netcdf.3 || rm netcdf.3 > /bin/bash: m4: command not found > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/libsrc' > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. > m4 -DAPI=C -DNETCDF4=TRUE ../man4/netcdf.m4 >netcdf.3 || rm netcdf.3 > /bin/bash: m4: command not found > /bin/mkdir -p '/home/nazanin/local/share/man/man3' > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./netcdf.3 '/home/nazanin/local/share/man/man3' > /usr/bin/install: cannot stat './netcdf.3': No such file or directory > make[2]: *** [install-man3] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/libsrc' > make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nazanin/Desktop/netcdf-c-4.3.2/libsrc' > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: DKA-669037 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed