Dear R users who might like to use the package RNetCDF on Fedora Linux: Fedora (versions 4 and 5) users might have noticed that the default install of the netcdf and netcdf-devel packages from the Fedora Extra archive is inconsistent with the R package RNetCDF. The attempt to install RNetCDF results in a failure in the configure stage because the header & library info for netcdf cannot be found.
In here, http://pj.freefaculty.org/software/PolsFC5Updates/ I just deposited an updated set of RPMS for netcdf version 3.6.1. You need the netcdf and netcdf-devel packages in order to install the RNetCDF package inside R. You don't need debuginfo, unless you are trying to use the GNU debugger to find bugs in netcdf itself. The problem installing RNetCDF was caused by the Fedora-Extras package maintainer's use of the install directory /usr/include/netcdf-3 rather than /usr/include. I had several very productive emails with RNetCDF's packager Pavel Michna <michna at giub.unibe.ch> and after a while, I concluded that the Fedora-Extras packaging is just wrong, and there's no point in trying to hack RNetCDF to work around it. So I removed the unusual packaging. While I was in the repackaging mood, I built the RPMS for the netcdf version 3.6.1, one notch newer than Fedora-extra currently offers. If you install these instead of the netcdf that Fedora extras provides, then it will work fine to do the RNetCDF install. Ordinarily, you would face the trouble that the automatic updates for Fedora (via yum) might obliterate the netcdf that I give you. You could exclude netcdf in your global yum settings, but in this case you might not have to worry. The package version I give is 3.6.1, whereas the Extras has only 3.6.0, and I gave the package release number 10. So until the extras folk get up to 3.6.1 and release 10, I think your yum updates will leave this one alone. Of course, if they package up 3.6.2, which is supposed to be released soon, then you will be in trouble. I've posted the SPEC file and SRPM file in case you want to build your own RPMS. Its fun! -- Paul E. Johnson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Political Science http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn 1541 Lilac Lane, Rm 504 University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086 Lawrence, Kansas 66044-3177 FAX: (785) 864-5700 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
