2 Quick Instructions for Installing NetCDF on Unix
Who has time to read long installation manuals these days?
To install netCDF, uncompress and unpack the tar file, then change to
the src directory:
gunzip netcdf-3.6.1.tar.gz
tar -xf netcdf-3.6.1.tar
cd netcdf-3.6.1/src
Now run the usual configure, make check, make install cycle:
./configure
make check
make install
The configure script will try to find necessary tools in your
path. When you run configure you may optionally use the –prefix
argument to change the default installation directory. For example,
the following will install the library in /usr/local/lib, the header
file in /usr/local/include, and the utilities in /usr/local/bin.
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
The default install root is .. (i.e. the parent directory, which will
be netcdf-3.6.1).
If all this doesn't work, then you might have to read the next
chapter. Better luck next time!
