In general you have access only to your home directory, /home/yourusername unless you use sudo or su to gain root access, giving you write access to everything. View permissions with ls -l, see more details here (or just google unix permissions) http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/help/faq/permissions.html
Are you using your own machine or a university machine with a systems adminstrator? How are you trying to install netcdf? (i.e. with apt-get or compiling?) When do you get this error? -C On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Jason Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: > > I got the following message as to why netcdf does not install correctly: > > How do I access /usr/local? Also how do I know which directories I have > write access to? > > Thanks, > > jason > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Unidata netCDF Support <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:31 PM > Subject: [netCDF #QCY-964177]: netcdf - 4.0.1 problems > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > > > Jason- > The problem almost certainly is that you do not have > access to /usr/local. > You will need to do one of two things. > 1. configure and install netcdf using sudo or logged in as root. > 2. choose a different location to install netcdf; one for which you > have write access. You specify that by saying > ./configure -prefix=<path to install directory> > > =Dennis Heimbigner > > > Ticket Details > =================== > Ticket ID: QCY-964177 > Department: Support netCDF > Priority: Normal > Status: Open > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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