Installing MeteoIO on Linux

Matteo Dall'Amico (see previous post on GEOtop installation) also provided instructions for compiling MeteoIO on Linux). For Mac OS instructions, please see this post.

# Check the environment compiler
sudo apt-get install make
sudo apt-get install g++


# Install the following packages (or verify you have them already). For Linux:


# install SVN
sudo apt-get install subversion

# install cmake
sudo apt-get install cmake
sudo apt-get install cmake-curses-gui

# install gdal libraries
sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev

# install proj libraries
sudo apt-get install proj-bin
sudo apt-get install libproj-dev

# After having selected your directory for installing meteoIO libraries with the usual console commands
# download the source code from the SVN:

svn co https://models.slf.ch/svn/meteoio/trunk

# then go inside the trunk folder

cd /path_to_MeteoIO_SVN/trunk/

# and type the cmake command:

ccmake .

# Press enter in the console and then "c" to configure:
Please set to ON:

BUILD_SHARED_LIBS
PLUGIN_A3DIO
PLUGIN_ARCIO
PLUGING_ARPSIO
PLUGIN_GEOTOPIO
PLUGIN_GRASSIO
PLUGIN_PGMIO
PLUGIN_SMETIO
PLUGIN_SNIO
PROJ4 (then you have to verify the paths to LIBPROJ and to LIBPROJ_INCLUDE_DIR)

All the rest can be set to OFF.

# Then, press "g" to generate the makefile and exit from the console.
# In the terminal, type:

make install

# (with "sudo" if you want to install it as super user).
# Eventually, you have to make the system aware of the new library by typing:

sudo ldconfig -v

After having installed meteoIO, in the needs to understand what it does, one can browse the examples in the "doc" directory. However, s/he can also built the doxygen documentation. Please be sure that you have Doxygen installed. For doing it, please first check you have doxygen installed. Subsequently:

• using a terminal move to the directory where the meteoIo source code is located. 
• execute "doxygen -g <configfile>" to create a configuration file, "configfile" for the project
• execute doxygen <configfile> to create the documentation
• Find the documentation in a new html directory created
• Access it by clicking on the index.html file