Discussion:
I have been working with GMT-4 and would like to install GMT-5 to be able to generate GeoTiffs
Arlindo Arriaga
2014-06-26 14:52:05 UTC
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Dear all

I have been working with GMT-4 (release 4.5.8) for about
1 year.

I am neither a system administrator nor a software engineer -
and also not a superuser.

I worked however as a scientist for more
than 20 years at EUMETSAT (www.eumetsat.int),

mostly working in
prototyping scientific software in support of programs of new
instruments or satellites

(MSG and EPS/IASI and EPS/MHS)

The
software packages I have worked with in Portugal since late 2012 (hdf4,
hdf5, GMT4, netcdf) were

installed by myself on my own work area. The
installation of GMT-5 shall be also performed on my work area only.

My
computer works under Linux Ubuntu 64 bits.

The installation of GMT-4
was quite easy, because there was a simple installation form to generate
the installation script.

Such an installation script also installed
the libraries needed for GMT (namely GDAL e netcdf).

Without the
installation script, I guess the there is a leap in the
difficulty/complexity for a successful installation of GMT-5.

I am
thus asking for your kindness to help me with a list of clearly defined
steps to correctly install GMT-5.

First of all, I would appreciate to
know which ugeneral tilities should be available in the system
(ghostscript, etc.)

and which particular libraries must I install in
my own work area, please? Where are those libraries, which ones may you


recommend, please ? Which tests should I perform to be sure those
libraries are correctly installed, before going ahead

ith the
installation of GMT-5 ?

After this part is successfully done, then I
will be back to you for GMT-5 itself.

I thank you for the kindness of
your attention and help.

Arlindo Arriaga

PhD Meteorology
(meteorological satellites), UW-Madison 1991

Senior Technician at
Portuguese Institute for the Ocean and Atmosphere (Lisbon, Portugal)


PS: I am leaving the office earlier today, so I will start working on
this tomorrow morning (by 9:00 UT)


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Gabriel Dragone
2014-06-27 18:10:26 UTC
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Hello Arlindo,

a step-by-step procedure for the installation of gmt5 is given in the link below, I am pretty sure it answers all your questions.
 
http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/projects/gmt/wiki/BuildingGMT


Regards,
Gabriel




Em Quinta-feira, 26 de Junho de 2014 11:52, Arlindo Arriaga <***@IPMA.PT> escreveu:



Dear all
 
I have been working with GMT-4 (release 4.5.8) for about 1 year.
I am neither a system administrator nor a software engineer - and also not a superuser.
I worked however as a scientist for more than 20 years at EUMETSAT (www.eumetsat.int),
mostly working in prototyping scientific software in support of programs of new instruments or satellites
(MSG and EPS/IASI and EPS/MHS)
 
 
The software packages I have worked with in Portugal since late 2012 (hdf4, hdf5, GMT4, netcdf) were
installed by myself on my own work area. The installation of GMT-5 shall be also performed on my work area only.
My computer works under Linux Ubuntu 64 bits.
 
 
The installation of GMT-4 was quite easy, because there was a simple installation form to generate the installation script.
Such an installation script also installed the libraries needed for GMT (namely GDAL e netcdf).
Without the installation script, I guess the there is a leap in the difficulty/complexity for a successful installation of GMT-5.
 
 
I am thus asking for your kindness to help me with a list of clearly defined steps to correctly install GMT-5.
First of all, I would appreciate to know which ugeneral tilities should be available in the system (ghostscript, etc.)
and which particular libraries must I install in my own work area, please? Where are those libraries, which ones may you
recommend, please ? Which tests should I perform to be sure those libraries are correctly installed, before going ahead
ith the installation of GMT-5 ?
 
After this part is successfully done, then I will be back to you for GMT-5 itself.
 
I thank you for the kindness of your attention and help.
Arlindo Arriaga
PhD Meteorology (meteorological satellites), UW-Madison 1991
Senior Technician at Portuguese Institute for the Ocean and Atmosphere (Lisbon, Portugal)
PS: I am leaving the office earlier today, so I will start working on this tomorrow morning (by 9:00 UT)
 
 
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John Helly
2014-06-28 00:25:30 UTC
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Hi.
I am struggling to draw a double-headed arrow with psxy. I cannot figure
out what the documentation says to do. Can someone suggest how that
might be done?

I can make a curved single-headed line using an example in the doc.

J
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Paul Wessel
2014-06-28 01:01:17 UTC
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You just add +b (for head at beginning) and +e for head at end. From psxy:

+b to place a vector head at the beginning of the vector [none].
+e to place a vector head at the end of the vector [none].

So something like -Sv0.25i+b+e and use -G for head color and -W for line.

-p
Hi.
I am struggling to draw a double-headed arrow with psxy. I cannot figure out what the documentation says to do. Can someone suggest how that might be done?
I can make a curved single-headed line using an example in the doc.
J
--
John Helly, University of California, San Diego / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography / 760 840 8660 mobile / stonesteps (Skype) / stonesteps7 (iChat) / http://www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj
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John Helly
2014-06-28 02:37:35 UTC
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Thanks, Paul
J.
Post by Paul Wessel
+b to place a vector head at the beginning of the vector [none].
+e to place a vector head at the end of the vector [none].
So something like -Sv0.25i+b+e and use -G for head color and -W for line.
-p
Hi.
I am struggling to draw a double-headed arrow with psxy. I cannot figure out what the documentation says to do. Can someone suggest how that might be done?
I can make a curved single-headed line using an example in the doc.
J
--
John Helly, University of California, San Diego / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography / 760 840 8660 mobile / stonesteps (Skype) / stonesteps7 (iChat) / http://www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj
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