Geo::BUFR ========= Library for handling of WMO (World Meteorological Organization) BUFR files. INSTALLATION Installation is most easily done by modern tools like cpan and cpanm, e.g. cpanm Geo::BUFR If you prefer the old way: download the tar file from CPAN (Download link at https://metacpan.org/pod/Geo::BUFR), unpack it and install with perl Makefile.PL make make test make install This will install the module in the standard location for which you normally will need root privileges. To install in a non-standard directory like /home/cpan, specify the directory during the 'perl Makefile.PL' stage: perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=/home/cpan after which you are adviced to modify the environment variable $PERL5LIB in order for Perl to find the module when executing programs, e.g. export PERL5LIB=/home/cpan/lib/perl/5.8.4:$PERL5LIB (or the corresponding command for your operating system and Perl version). You will need a C compiler which supports variable length arrays. This is standard on Unix-like systems. On Windows I recommend using Strawberry Perl, in which case you should type 'gmake' instead of 'make' when installing. DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules, all of which are expected to be part of a standard Perl distribution: Carp, Config, Cwd, DynaLoader, FileHandle, File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, Pod::Usage, Scalar::Util, Storable, Test::More, Time::Local DESCRIPTION BUFR = Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data. BUFR is becoming the standard exchange format for meteorological observations. This module provides methods for decoding and encoding BUFR messages, and for displaying information in BUFR B and D tables and in BUFR flag and code tables. The core routines for encoding and decoding bitstreams are implemented in C. This module also installs some example programs: bufrread.pl, bufrresolve.pl, bufrextract.pl, bufrencode.pl, bufr_reencode.pl and bufralter.pl. See https://wiki.met.no/bufr.pm/start for examples of use. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Copyright (C) 2010-2023 MET Norway