Re: [ferret_users] building ferret configuring site_specific.mk

[Dave Burns <tburns@xxxxxxxxxx>]

HI Karl, thanks for the reply.

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 11:47 AM Karl Smith - NOAA Affiliate <karl.smith@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Dave,

Yes, for many of the newer "free" Linux systems, /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu is the location of the libraries.

Are you building Ferret or PyFerret? 

Someone asked me to install ferret for them. Why are there two, what are the differences? If I install pyferret, do we get the same functionality?

 

We recommend the latter.  Also, if you are going to build from source, get the latest source (7.4.3) from GitHub:

https://github.com/NOAA-PMEL/PyFerret (or https://github.com/NOAA-PMEL/Ferret if you are sure you want Ferret instead)

I tried that, but the instructions for the github version seemed completely confusing, and I had a hunch that it needed some newer versions of the dependencies than are available to me. I haven't used github much.

 

The RHEL7 pre-built package might work, but I have not tested it on Ubuntu.root@:

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