cdat 5.2 installation guide for ubuntu

Cdat 5.2 installation steps for ubuntu

Ref : http://www2-pcmdi.llnl.gov/

Ref : http://www2-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cdat

Ubuntu packages needed

If you have only the minimal Ubuntu install, there is a good chance that you won’t be able to do a successful install of CDAT, since additional packages are needed. Here’s the list of what I added (you can add them using Synaptic, Ubuntu’s GUI-based package manager):

• bison *
• byacc *
• flex *
• gawk *
• g++
• gfortran (for contrib packages)
• libxt-dev
• libx11-dev
• tcsh (just highly recomended)
• xorg-dev (also called xserver-xorg-dev)


If  you will install cdat in freshly installed ubuntu , then finally it will return “Error” like , can not install “matplotlib”.

So for that , we need to install

libpng (1.1 or later ) and freetype (1.4 or later)

from synaptic package manager.

Explicitly set the default compiler

If you don’t explicitly set the environment variables specifying which compilers to use, you may end up compiling different libraries with different compilers. Thus, in csh or tcsh, make sure you execute:

export CC=gcc
export FC=gfortran
export CXX=g++

source :

svn export http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/svn/repository/cdat/tags/5.2    cdat-5.2-src

Once you got the sources you can install CDAT as follow:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/cdat5.2/ --with-externals=/usr/local/cdat5.2/cdat_ext

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$ sudo make   # You can now start CDAT with the command 

$ cd /usr/local/cdat5.2/bin 

$ ./cdat



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