Installation netcdf4

Installing the required dependencies There are only two dependencies to install, HDF5 (>=1.8.2) and netCDF4. The version of HDF5 shipped with Karmic is 1.6.6, so you'll need to compile from source. Lucid will ship with 1.8.3 so that won't be necessary, but until then, read on.

HDF5 Download the current HDF5 source release.

Unpack, go into the directory and execute:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared --enable-hl
make 
sudo make install

To speed things up, compile on more than one processor using

make -j n 

where n is the number of processes to be launched.

netCDF4 Download the current netCDF4 source release. Unpack, go into the directory and execute:

LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include ./configure --enable-netcdf-4 --enable-dap --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local
make 
make install

When both HDF5 and netCDF4 are in /usr/local, make sure the linker will be able to find those libraries by executin

pip install netcdf4