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

Hello Arlindo,

a step-by-step procedure for the installation of gmt5 is given in the link below, I am pretty sure it answers all your questions.
 
http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/projects/gmt/wiki/BuildingGMT


Regards,
Gabriel




Em Quinta-feira, 26 de Junho de 2014 11:52, Arlindo Arriaga <[email protected]> escreveu:
 


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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