Section: 2.5 Installing netCDF

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: