[ncl-install] Oops! Stuck installation

[Michael Allen]

I'm running an x86_64 dual processor (Opteron 248) machine with 2 GB RAM 
and 3/4 TB RAID system.  I'm also runing fedora core 6, 
2.6.22.9-61.fc6.  My installation, however, is not going well!

I tried installing the binary version and although NCL seemed to install 
correctly, I received a message that my system was missing libcurl.so.4, 
although I have the curl libraries installed for fedora core 6.

Next I downloaded the source code for NCL.  When running the blockdata 
test file, however, no matter what I placed into the make file as a 
fortran 77 compiler, I received error messages.  I have the standard 
compilers installed, such as compat -gcc-34, -c++, and f77 as well as 
the gcc compilers (and gfortran, the fortran 95 compiler).  I've 
compiled lots of packages before and never had a problem.  Even LDM 
installed correctly.

Do you have any further suggestions?

Michael Allen
Minneapolis, MN