Re: unable to install netcdf package

[Andreas Weber]

Am 10.02.2018 um 01:08 schrieb Andrew Friedman:
> I am unable to install the netcdf package for Octave 4.2.1. 
> ...
> octave:1> pkg install -forge netcdf
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGraphicsMagick++
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGraphicsMagick
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqrupdate
> ...
> Additional information: I am running scientific linux, and I do not have root 
> access.

I never used "scientific linux" but from what I've read the wiki parts
for RHEL/CentOS can be used.

Have you installed octave via some package manager (yum?), then you
should also install netcdf this way. If it's not available you have to
install the octave-devel-* packages (via yum) which provides mkoctfile
and libs needed to build forge packages.


Obviously you also have to install the dependencies yourself. configure
tells you which one are needed but aren't found:

> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGraphicsMagick++
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGraphicsMagick
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqrupdate

go and install these development libaries with yum, I guess they are
named libgraphicsmagick....-dev and so on.

Good luck and happy hacking
-- Andy