Installation Instructions for Ncedit

To install the NetCDF file editor, ncedit, from source distribution you should perform the following steps:

1. Check whether the following software is installed on your system:
   • Motif 2.1 (LessTif unfortunately does not work yet),
   • Xbae 4.7,
   • netcdf 3.4 (or a later version),
   • nana 2.5.
   If not, click on the links to download this software and install it. You also will need a working C++ compiler and STL. GCC will be fine.
2. If you don't have the source distribution yet, download it from the tools page of the CKO website.
3. First, create a new directory, e.g., ncedit, and change to this directory.

   mkdir ncedit
   cd ncedit

4. Unpack the the source distribution, e.g., with

   gunzip -c ../ncedit.tar.gz | tar xvf -

5. Configure the software with

   ./configure

   This starts execution of a script that tries to retrieve all the information that is needed to correctly configure the software for compilation and installation. By default, ncedit will be installed in the current directory. If you want to change this use the --prefix=path option. For example, to install ncedit in your personal ~/bin directory, invoke the script as follows:

   ./configure --prefix=$HOME

   In the case the configuration script fails it most likely does because it could not find one or more of the libraries that are needed. In this case you should specify the locations of the header and library files by setting the shell variables CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS. For example, if the netcdf header files are located in /usr/local/free/include and the library file in /usr/local/free/lib you would invoke the script as follows

   CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/free/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/free/lib" ./configure

   In case you are using csh or tcsh instead of a Bourne shell derived shell this becomes

   env CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/free/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/free/lib" ./configure

   In case you have to specify more directories you can add additional -I and -L directives.
6. Compile the tools with

   make

7. To install ncedit in bin subdirectory of the installation directory you specified to the configuration script at step 5, enter the command

   make install