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2.5 Installing netCDF
NetCDF is easy to build and install from source using the most recent autotools-based package.

On many platforms, it only requires expanding the compressed distribution and running three commands: 


     ./configure
     make check
     make install

If you want to use the netCDF-4/HDF5 data format, you must first install the zlib-1.2.3 and HDF5-1.8.1 libraries, and build netCDF like this: 


     ./configure --enable-netcdf-4 --with-hdf5=/location/of/hdf5
     make check
     make install

If you run into problems, check these sources of help:

 


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