B Software you will need for DODS

To do anything with DODS, you'll need to be able to unpack the archive files you can download from the OPeNDAP site. To save space and transmission time, the archive files are compressed with the gzip program. You will have to have a copy of that program to unpack the OPeNDAP software.

Most of the software you need for OPeNDAP is avaliable from the GNU archives. Refer to http://www.gnu.org for instructions. Look at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for a list of mirrors of that archive. Use the mirror closest to you, the transmission will be faster.

gzip

This is the GNU compression and de-compression program. You will need to install it before you can unpack any of the other software described here. This package is not available in the OPeNDAP distribution, since it is used to unpack the distribution archive files.

Follow the instructions to install each of the following software packages. Typically, you would install a package called foo as follows:

gzip -dc foo.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd foo
./configure
make
make install

This is simply a guide, of course, and the installation instructions for each software package should be followed carefully.

• B.1 Running an OPeNDAP Server
• B.2 Running an OPeNDAP Client
• B.3 Building DODS