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Installing MB-System™ is generally straight forward. A brief summary of the required steps follows:
Download the MB-System™ package.
Install GMT and netCDF if you haven't already. If you have locate these packages on your system. Verify that you have perl installed on your system as well.
Create a home directory structure for MB-System™ and unpack the tar ball.
Edit a copy of the "install_makefiles" script, specifying your parameters.
Run "install_makefiles" to modify the default Makefile's for your parameters.
Build the source with make, and install it with make install.
In general you do not need root privileges to compile MB-System™. (This is somewhat dependent on where you chose to put package, of course.) However if you are starting from scratch, you may need them to compile and install GMT.