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+The following tarballs are used when building the pre-requisit
+libraries for meteo codes such as WRF and CM1.
+
+RIP_47.tar.gz                                   netcdf-c-4.7.0.tar.gz
+curl-7.64.1.tar.gz                              netcdf-c-4.7.4.tar.gz
+freetype-2.10.1.tar.gz                          netcdf-fortran-4.4.5.tar.gz
+hdf5-1.10.6.tar.gz                              netcdf-fortran-4.5.2.tar.gz
+jasper-1.900.1.zip                              pixman-0.38.4.tar.gz
+libpng-1.6.37.tar.gz                            szip-2.1.1.tar
+ncl_ncarg-6.6.2-CentOS6.10_64bit_gnu447.tar.gz  zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz
+