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[netCDF #ZIU-420624]: NetCDF packages not there?

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  • Subject: [netCDF #ZIU-420624]: NetCDF packages not there?
  • Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 06:59:54 -0700
Hi Yaprak,

> I'm trying to build NetCDF to work with Wavewatch 3 in fortran. I installed
> NetCDF 4.1.3 and it seems to be working fine, but I have 7 packages I need
> for Wavewatch 3 to work and the only one I seem to have in my /bin
> directory is "ncdump"
> 
> The packages I'm missing are:
> 
> 1. libhdf5-serial
> 2. netcdf-dev
> 3. netcdf-bin
> 4. netcdf-dbg
> 5. netcdf-doc
> 6. ncview

Only ncview is the name of a program that you would install in a bin directory.
All six of those are names of binary packages provided by package managers
(such as apt-get) for particular OS versions, such as Ubuntu or Debian. Unidata
doesn't create or maintain binary packages for specific OS versions (except for 
Windows because it's tricky to build from source).

If you've already installed netCDF from source, you don't need netcdf-dev or
netcdf-bin, unless you want a more recent version than 4.1.3 (June 2011).
netcdf-dbg is just a file of debug symbols, netcdf-doc is just documentation,
ncview is a third-party visualization program we didn't develop, and 
libhdf5-serial is just an HDF5 binary package built without parallel I/O 
support.

> I've tried searching for information on these and I haven't had any luck.
> Do you know what I need to do to add them?

 If you need these, you'll have to get them from a package repository that's
for your particular OS version. For example, if you are running a recent 
version of Ubuntu and want the latest version of netCDF (4.3.3), this would 
be a repository you could use:

  https://launchpad.net/~nschloe/+archive/ubuntu/netcdf-nightly

--Russ

> Thank you.
> Sincerely,
> Yaprak Onat
> --
> University of Hawai'i at Manoa
> Ocean and Resources Engineering
> SNAME & MTS Student Section Chair
> Tel: +1 808 956 6101  Fax: +1 808 956 3498
> 
> 
Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: ZIU-420624
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed