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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.
  1. Save one of the compressed files for the NetCDF library, listed here in a file (version 2.4.3 should work),
  2. Save one of the compressed files for the PVM library, listed here in a file (version 3.3.11 should work),
  3. Save the compressed files for PIPS in a file,
  4. Uncompress the files with one of the following commands: 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.

Revision 1.02:

Revision 1.01:

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
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