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Installation
To make any use of the conversion programs, you need the NetCDF-library.
To use the parallel programs, you need to install PVM as well.
- Save one of the compressed files for the NetCDF library,
listed here in a file
(version 2.4.3
should work),
- Save one of the compressed files for the PVM library,
listed here in a file
(version 3.3.11 should work),
- Save the
compressed files for PIPS in a file,
- Uncompress the files with one of the following commands:
- uncompress -c
filename.tar.Z | tar -xvf -
- gunzip -c
filename.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
- unzip -c filename.zip
and follow the instructions in the extracted README and
INSTALL files.
This version of PIPS has been developed with Unidata netCDF, version 2.3.2
and PVM, version 3.3.4.
- Updated documentation
- Corrected Makefile
- tar and backup make targets include pips directory name
- changed PIPSDIR to "." which is more portable
- create lib, bin, obj subdirectory
- corrected setupPVM target (subdirectory creation)
The following section contains the INSTALL file of this package
and describes how to install PIPS:
INSTALLATION
PIPS version 1.02
This document describes how to build and install the PIPS package.
1) Install the NetCDF library and PVM. If only the NetCDF library
is installed, then only pnm2nc, nc2pnm and ncattdef will be build.
2) Check the Makefile in the pips directory. You will certainly
have to correct the pathnames for the NetCDF- and PVM library.
At this stage, you will only need to edit the first variable
section in the Makefile.
3) Type make in the pips directory.
You may get some messages like:
*** Error code 1 (ignored)
This is perfectly allright - please ignore them !
4) Type a program name with the -h command line option to get
information on how to use it.
The trouble-shooting section contains answers to some
common problems with the mentioned packages known to the author.
Frank Heimes (Dr-Frank.Heimes@epost.de), 30 Mar 2001
Phone: +49 (721) 6091 - 424, FAX: +49 (721) 6091 - 233
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