netcdf-bin is in the ubuntu universe repository. See if you can't install it with sudo apt-get install netcdf-bin
should be easier than compiling the source. -Carl On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Eric Lin <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:32:58PM -0800, Jason Snyder wrote: > > I am having problems with installing programs on LINUX ubuntu 9.10. That > > includes having problems setting environments using setenv. Is it > possible > > to have some one go over the program webpages to help me install > > some of these programs? > > > > One such program is called GrADS on the website for this is: > > > > > > http://www.iges.org/grads/downloads.html > > > > Based on this website can you help give me guidance on how to install > > GrADS? This would help be to able to install other similar programs. > > The file on the GrADS website linked from "ubuntu-8.04 (32-bit)" is just > an archive of binaries. Just copy the files to ~/bin, /usr/bin, or > /usr/local/bin, and they'll be fine. > > > > > Another program I tried installing is NetCDF: > > > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ > > > > when I tried running the install program make install I got the following > > message: > > > > snyde...@snyderjm-laptop:~/Desktop/netcdf-4.0.1$ make install > > Making install in f90 > > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/snyderjm/Desktop/netcdf-4.0.1/f90' > > make install-am > > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/snyderjm/Desktop/netcdf-4.0.1/f90' > > make[3]: Entering directory `/home/snyderjm/Desktop/netcdf-4.0.1/f90' > > make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. > > test -z "/usr/local/share/man/man3" || /bin/mkdir -p > > "/usr/local/share/man/man3" > > /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/man/man3': > Permission > > denied > > make[3]: *** [install-man3] Error 1 > > make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/snyderjm/Desktop/netcdf-4.0.1/f90' > > make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/snyderjm/Desktop/netcdf-4.0.1/f90' > > make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/snyderjm/Desktop/netcdf-4.0.1/f90' > > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 > > Try running this is as root or with superuser powers (sudo make install). > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jason > > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > -Eric > Go Team USA! > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Carl Boettiger Population Biology, UC Davis http://two.ucdavis.edu/~cboettig
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