Issues and bugs - Alexander-Barth/octave-netcdf GitHub Wiki

If you found a bug or having trouble with this package, you can write to [email protected] (which is the mailing list for both octave and octave-forge). Please provide the following information:

  • Version of octave and from where you got it (for example octave 4.0.0 from http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html or octave 4.0.0 from the cygwin repository)
  • Version of octave-netcdf and from where you got it (for example netcdf 1.0.0 from sourceforge or octave-netcdf 1.0.0 from Fedora's repository)
  • Version of your NetCDF library
  • Please indicate if you have multiple versions of the NetCDF library installed and if yes, please specify which version and at which path they are installed. You can use for example the commands:
locate libnetcdf.a
locate libnetcdf.so
  • If you compiled netCDF from source, please specify the all used options of the ./configure script and the file config.log.
  • Name and version of your operating system. For Linux, please specify the distribution (for example Windows 10 or Linux Fedora 42). If you use cygwin, please sent also the list of installed packages by running the command:
cygcheck -c > all_packages.txt

and sent the file "all_packages.txt".

  • For installation problems, please provide the output of the following commands:
which nc-config
nc-config --all
  • A minimal code and minimal example file which reproduces the error.
  • If you have problems reading an existing file, run ncdump -h file.nc > file.cdl and provide the file.cdl (where file.nc is the problematic file)
  • Does your file conforms to the CF standard? Please check the file using http://puma.nerc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/cf-checker.pl and report if the checker finds any issues.
  • The output of the script test_netcdf.