trying to install ncl and nco on ubuntu or centos

I have some users that want ncl, nco, ncview, and udunits. We mostly use
centos, which does have ncl and udunits packages, but nothing for nco and
ncview. I noticed that ubuntu does have packages for nco and ncview, but not
for ncl or udunits. I think fedora has them all, or at least used to, and
centos used to. We used to use fedora, but the frequent release of kernels
and short lifetime of each version had us always trying to catch up, so we
switched to centos, because it is very similar but they promise to support
each version much longer.

I've also tried compiling from source, with discouraging results. Without
the packaging system to help me, dependencies cause a big problem.

I'm not sure even what to ask at this point - how do I support these users?
Should I volunteer to make packages (I have no experience)? Make them use a
virtual machine with ubuntu installed for stuff available on that platform
only?

thanks,
Dave

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Received on Thu Nov 18 11:52:32 2010