Notes on How to Install python netCDF4 package on Unix Sys

[yiboj]

Using Anaconda to install python packages is easy but tricky. Here is the steps I learned to install the netCDF4 packages on unix machine.

When you run the anaconda command to install netCDF4 package, it says that the hdf4 is installed along with it using the command:

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$> conda install -c anaconda netcdf4

But you will get error message below when you run it:

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ImportError: libmfhdf.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The problem is that you have to manually install hdf4 package first with the following command:

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$> conda install hdf4

Hope this saves you some headache.