In addition to this code, you will need the following packages:

IDL 8.X

HDF5

• In order to compile netCDF, you'll need to have this installed. For Ubuntu, this is a fairly straight forward package to install: sudo apt-get install libhdf5-serial-dev

zlib

• In order to compile netCDF, you'll also need this package. For Ubuntu, this is a fairly straight forward package to install: sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

netCDF (dev)

• (New way): netCDF can be easily downloaded in linux using package management programs such as apt, rpm, yum etc. Here, search for repository names such as "netcdf-devel" or "libnetcdf-dev". For Ubuntu/apt do: sudo apt-get install libnetcdf-dev

• (Old way, and not sure if this still works): netCDF can be downloaded from UCAR at: www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/. Here go to Download and then "The Latest Stable netCDF-C Release, tar.gz form" (or .zip form if you want). Suppose you downloaded the tarball into your home directory /home/user. Unzip and untar the netCDF package: cd /home/user gunzip netcdf-X.X.tar.gz tar xvf netcdf-X.X.tar The last command will create a directory called /home/user/netcdf-X.X. Enter the directory /home/user/netcdfX.X and compile the netCDF software. If you choose to install netCDF system wide in /usr/local/netcdf, you will need the correct privileges. In the directory /home/user/netcdf-X.X, enter (with the correct privileges) ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/netcdf --disable-netcdf-4 make check install

CDF 3.X

• CDF can be downloaded from NASA. You can find the lastest release at: http://cdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/

netpbm

libpng (dev)

ncurses (dev)

It is HIGHLY recommended to setup git on your local computer as updates are easily downloaded to your computer.

##Install notes (There is a more complete document somewhere, but we'll start with this):

1. Upon cloning the repository (with git clone or downloading zip file), load the RST environment variables. For example, this is accomplished in linux by modifying the ~/.bashrc file by adding:

    # bash profile for rst
    export RSTPATH="INSTALL LOCATION"/VTRST3.5
    . $RSTPATH/.profile.bash
   

   where the INSTALL LOCATION is the path with the VTRST3.5 repository has been copied to on your computer.

   Also, you'll need to edit the location that your netCDF package was installed at by editing the entry in the ~/VTRST3.5/.profile/base.bash file:

    export NETCDF_PATH="/usr/include"
   

   The given example is where Ubuntu 12.04 placed the netcdf.h file using the apt-get package manager.

   In order to load the environment, you'll need to close your current terminal and open a new terminal.

2. With CDF library, you will need to copy a few choice files into certain places. Namely:

    Copy the cdf.h file into ~/VTRST3.5/codebase/analysis/src.lib/cdf/rcdf.1.5/include/
    Copy the libcdf.a and libcdf.so into ~/VTRST3.5/lib/
   

3. Run 'make.build' from the command line

4. Run 'make.code superdarn rst' to compile all of the code.

Again...this may not be everything, but we'll start here.

##To do's:

• Need to restore functionality to dmaptoncdf.1.11. This package was tarred up so that the code could compile. Whenever this package is in the codebase, the rst doesn't compile as it is missing a .h file. SOLVED: Seems as though netcdf has been added to several install package managers as seen in the notes above!