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I am using a code which employs the modern netCDF c++ interface (netcdf namespace, include file is called just netcdf without .h or similar, ncFile class, etc) and have just switched to 12.04.1.

I installed netCDF and libnetcdf6 with apt-get, but I still get the "old" headers in /usr/local/include (netcdf.h, netcdfcpp.h, etc).

In Ubuntu, the library version for netCDF is 4.1.1, while at my own computer with Mac Os X (where I have the right netCDF include file) the version is 4.2.1.1.

I cannot modify the source code I am using. I would like to know if there is a way to upgrade the netCDF library on Ubuntu to support the modern c++ interface, or, if I have to manually compile it, if you think that using src2pkg is a good idea. This is my first experience with Ubuntu.

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Open your terminal and run these commands:

wget http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/ftp/netcdf-4.2.1.1.tar.gz
tar -xvf netcdf-4.2.1.1.tar.gz
cd netcdf-4.2.1.1
./configure
make
sudo make install

For more information, in the netcdf-4.2.1.1 directory you will have a README file.

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Thanks for the reply. I will do that. I though there was a more "ubuntu-like" way to do that rather than compiling from sources. It will bring me memories from when I was using Slackware and compiling from source. – iluvatar Oct 4 '12 at 4:31
I just want to add that to get the modern c++ interface I am looking for, I need to install the tarball from http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/ftp/netcdf-cxx4-4.2.tar.gz – iluvatar Oct 4 '12 at 14:24

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