Hello, First let me say that I am still new to the Linux environment, and thanks in advance for your help and patience. I'm trying my best here! :)
I need to install hdf5 on my machine so that I can analyze netcdf files in programs that use hdf5. I am using Ubuntu 10.10 with 64-bit architecture. I downloaded hdf5-1.8.7-linux-x86_64- static.tar.gz from the HDF website thinking that was what I needed. I decompress the file and read the README, but am still a little perplexed so I check the online instructions here: http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/unpacked/release_docs/INSTALL However, these instructions say that I can do the usual ./configure, make, make install sequence to install, but there is no configure file in the download. So my questions are: 1) What am I doing wrong? 2) Is this the best way to install (i.e. is there a debian method)? 3) I posted this question at ubuntuforums.org and got 1 reply saying that I needed to install the Java development tools to build it. Is that true? Thanks a million! Mike
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