Install climate data operators (cdo) on Ubuntu with netCDF4 and hdf5 support

Nikolay Koldunov
koldunovn@gmail.com
@oceanographer

CDOs can be installed from Ubuntu repositories, but they are compiled without netCDF4 and HDF5 support. As a result you can get:

Unsupported file type (library support not compiled in)

error. To solve this we have to compile cdo by ourselves.

Uninstal cdo if you have them installed from Ubuntu repositories:sudo apt-get purge cdo


Install netcdf andf HDF5 libraries:sudo apt-get install libnetcdf-dev libhdf5-dev


Download latest stable version of cdo from here

Unpack it

cd to unpacked directory

If you want to install cdo in to your system directory:./configure --enable-netcdf4 --enable-zlib --with-netcdf=/usr/ --with-hdf5=/usr/ make sudo make install


If you don't have administrative rights, of would like to have installation of cdo in other folder for any other reason, you can provide prefix:./configure --enable-netcdf4 --enable-zlib --prefix=/dir/where/to/put/cdo --with-netcdf=/usr/ --with-hdf5=/usr/ make make install


In the last case you should also add this path to your $PATH in .bashrc file:export PATH=/dir/where/to/put/cdo/bin:$PATH


note bin at the end!

Hope it will work for you :)

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