Hi Gilles, Sorry to have taken so long to respond to your question ... > I am trying to build NetCDF library to run the WRF model. I use linux > OS Ubuntu 12.04. I know a little bit about scripting but I am kind of > rusty to say the least. I easily get lost... > > After creating a netcdf directory, I downloaded there the > netcdf-4.2.1.1.tar.gz file, I used gunzip to extract and realized the > building without hdf5 (hoping I don't need it for WRF) as described on > unidata web site. > > I then used the "make check install" to check if everything is fine. It > looks ok, but it mentionned after many ok lines in the terminal window > it said: > > "test -z "/usr/local/include" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/include" > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 netcdf.h '/usr/local/include' > /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/include/netcdf.h': > Permission denied > make[2]: *** [install-includeHEADERS] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gilles/netcdf/netcdf-4.2.1.1/include' > make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gilles/netcdf/netcdf-4.2.1.1/include' > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1" > > So it seems something is wrong, perhaps the path, or the location of > the directory where I downloaded the tar.gz file and started building > the library in the first time. > > Any suggestion? Yes, I think you are trying to run "make install" as an ordinary user, who doesn't have the necessary permissions for installing in a system directory, such as /usr/local/lib or /usr/local/include. If you have "sudo" permissions, try running sudo make install which will ask for your password. If you aren't set up as a "sudo" user, you'll either have to login as "root" to run the make install command, or install netCDF in a directory where you have the necessary permissions, such as your home directory. To specify an alternate installation location, instead of the default "/usr/local", use the --prefix= option to the configure script after running "make clean" but before running "make check" and "make install". > Then in the same netcdf directory I downloaded the > netcdf-fortran-4.2.tar.gz and used gunzip command, then went in the > netcdf-fortran-4.2 directroty and did the ./configure, but it complained > the following: > > configure: error netcdf.h could not be found. Please set CPPFLAGS. > > Seems another path problem but I am not even sure that if I download the > first netcdf-4.2.1.1.tar.gz file and install it correctly I really need > the netcdf-fortran-4.2.tar.gz and realize the set up to run the WRF... > > So should I build that library too or just the first one is enough? You need to have built and installed the netCDF 4.2.1.1 C library before trying to build and install the netCDF-4.2 Fortran library, as described here: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/netcdf-fortran-install.html > Also a friend just emailed me few minutes ago to told me not to use the > netcdf 4.*** version for running the WRF but 3.*** > > So should I uninstall netcdf 4.2.1 and install a 3.*** version? No, that's not necessary or advisable. You can use netCDF 4.2.1.1 with any program that worked with netCDF-3, as it's backward compatible. And you built without the HDF5 library (or maybe with the --disable-netcdf-4 configure option), so what you have is essentially netCDF-3 with some bug fixes included since the old netcdf-3.6.3 release. --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: FCB-421026 Department: Support netCDF Priority: High Status: Closed
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