GMT 4 server seemed to be down

Q&A
1

I know I know I need to update to gmt5 or 6 but the program I use is integrated with GMT4…

Ubuntu just had a major update and now GMT4 commands can’t find libnetcdf.so.13, despite me updating netcdf. I am trying to re-install GMT 4 to see if that will help and when I try get get the package to reinstall it from the site, I get the following:

Please contact the gmt support team and let them know the gmttemp directory does not exist.

2

Did you try to install from source code?

The gmt4.5.18 is working on my Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS when installed from source code.

3

Ok this is great. Does this method work for GMT4? :http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/projects/gmt/wiki/BuildingGMT

4

I notice that DSW and gshhg ftp sites are also depreciated does that matter?

5

We are not still maintaining the old GMT 4 site so I do not know what could be done about the gmttemp directory, but the FTP mirrors also contain old releases for GMT, dcw, and gshhg: https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org/mirrors/index.html. Modern browsers do not support ftp navigation, but you could look at the legacy dir in one of the mirrors with http.

6

You just need gshhg. GMT4 does not use dsw.