I have been working with GMT-4 and would like to install GMT-5 to be able to generate GeoTiffs

  

Dear all 

I have been working with GMT-4 (release 4.5.8) for about
1 year. 

I am neither a system administrator nor a software engineer -
and also not a superuser. 

I worked however as a scientist for more
than 20 years at EUMETSAT (www.eumetsat.int), 

mostly working in
prototyping scientific software in support of programs of new
instruments or satellites 

(MSG and EPS/IASI and EPS/MHS) 

The
software packages I have worked with in Portugal since late 2012 (hdf4,
hdf5, GMT4, netcdf) were 

installed by myself on my own work area. The
installation of GMT-5 shall be also performed on my work area only. 

My
computer works under Linux Ubuntu 64 bits. 

The installation of GMT-4
was quite easy, because there was a simple installation form to generate
the installation script. 

Such an installation script also installed
the libraries needed for GMT (namely GDAL e netcdf). 

Without the
installation script, I guess the there is a leap in the
difficulty/complexity for a successful installation of GMT-5. 

I am
thus asking for your kindness to help me with a list of clearly defined
steps to correctly install GMT-5. 

First of all, I would appreciate to
know which ugeneral tilities should be available in the system
(ghostscript, etc.) 

and which particular libraries must I install in
my own work area, please? Where are those libraries, which ones may you


recommend, please ? Which tests should I perform to be sure those
libraries are correctly installed, before going ahead 

ith the
installation of GMT-5 ? 

After this part is successfully done, then I
will be back to you for GMT-5 itself. 

I thank you for the kindness of
your attention and help. 

Arlindo Arriaga 

PhD Meteorology
(meteorological satellites), UW-Madison 1991 

Senior Technician at
Portuguese Institute for the Ocean and Atmosphere (Lisbon, Portugal)


PS: I am leaving the office earlier today, so I will start working on
this tomorrow morning (by 9:00 UT) 


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