In general you have access only to your home directory, /home/yourusername unless you use sudo or su to gain root access, giving you write access to everything. View permissions with ls -l, see more details here (or just google unix permissions) <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/help/faq/permissions.html">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/help/faq/permissions.html</a><br>
<br>Are you using your own machine or a university machine with a systems adminstrator? How are you trying to install netcdf? (i.e. with apt-get or compiling?) When do you get this error?<br><br>-C<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Jason Snyder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmssnyder@ucdavis.edu">jmssnyder@ucdavis.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I got the following message as to why netcdf does not install correctly:<br><br>How do I access /usr/local? Also how do I know which directories I have write access to?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>jason<br><div class="gmail_quote">
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Date: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:31 PM<br>Subject: [netCDF #QCY-964177]: netcdf - 4.0.1 problems<br>To: <a href="mailto:jmssnyder@ucdavis.edu" target="_blank">jmssnyder@ucdavis.edu</a><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:support-netcdf@unidata.ucar.edu" target="_blank">support-netcdf@unidata.ucar.edu</a><br>
<br><br>Jason-<br>
The problem almost certainly is that you do not have<br>
access to /usr/local.<br>
You will need to do one of two things.<br>
1. configure and install netcdf using sudo or logged in as root.<br>
2. choose a different location to install netcdf; one for which you<br>
have write access. You specify that by saying<br>
./configure -prefix=<path to install directory><br>
<br>
=Dennis Heimbigner<br>
<br>
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Ticket Details<br>
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Ticket ID: QCY-964177<br>
Department: Support netCDF<br>
Priority: Normal<br>
Status: Open<br>
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