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>From: Michael Keables <address@hidden> >Organization: DU >Keywords: 199908262233.QAA03752 McIDAS RedHat 6.0 Linux Mike, >You may look at a clean installation of RedHat 6.0 on >nimbus.natnet.du.edu. Login as mcidas, ... Thanks. I just today got McIDAS-X 7.60 to build on our RedHat 6.0 system here at Unidata, so this is a good time to check the newly cut distribution on one of your Dells. >Will leave it on for the week, but then will need to wipe the disk and >replace with v5.2. Given my success, you don't have to wipe the new machines if you don't want to. There is no harm in loading in RedHat 5.2, but you don't need to as far as McIDAS goes now. I'm sorry that I wasn't able to promise this success earlier, but I really couldn't predict how long it would take to fix all of the problems that could be run into. If you want to stay with RedHat 6.0, then there is some configuration that will have to be done. This relates to the use of the 'f2c' stuff that is needed for the McIDAS (and GEMPAK) builds on 6.0: <login as 'root' (If I had had root privilege, I would have done the following for you> cd /usr/local/bin ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu <user> <pass> cd unix/760/fortran/RedHat6.0 binary get f2c lcd /usr/local/include get f2c.h lcd ;usr/local/lib get libf2c.a quit chmod +x f2c I got McIDAS-X 7.60 to build on nimbus by putting the f2c stuff in the directory /home/mcidas/util. I then had to hack a couple of anciallary McIDAS 'make' files (mccomp and mcfc in the /home/mcidas/mcidas7.6/src directory) to get the distribution to build. After 'root' does the installation steps above, you can wipe out the /home/mcidas/util directory and its contents from nimbus. Your machine appears to be pretty fast. The full McIDAS-X, -XCD build took only about 20 minutes! I tested out the build by doing the following (I made no changes to shell configuration files): <login as mcidas> cd /home/mcidas <ftp the distribution and associated files> chmod +x mcinstall setenv McINST_ROOT /home/mcidas ./mcinstall cd mcidas7.6/src make all make install.all setenv PATH /home/mcidas/bin:$PATH setenv MCDATA /home/mcidas/workdata setenv MCPATH ${MCDATA}:/home/mcidas/data:/home/mcidas/help setenv MCGUI /home/mcidas/bin <set the DISPLAY back to my machine at Unidata> rehash mcidas config <in McIDAS, I did> <open the GUI command mode by pressing the left mouse button over the keyboard icon> DF 9010 1 EU=TOPO EG B DATALOC ADD RTIMAGES ADDE.UNIDATA.UCAR.EDU IMGDISP RTIMAGES/GE-IR LATLON=27:30 77:30 EU=IMAGE REFRESH='EG;MAP H' EG EG I DATALOC DEL RTIMAGES Everything seemed to work nicely. If you decide to keep nimbus at RedHat 6.0 (and now there is no reason not to), you need to finish off the installation: <as root> <create an account named 'mcadde' that: o has the same HOME directory as 'mcidas' o does not have login privilege (shell should be set to /bin/false) o is in the same group as 'mcidas' and 'ldm' cd /home/mcidas sh mcinet7.6.sh install mcadde <as 'mcidas'> cd /home/mcidas <configure the 'mcidas' account for: o running McIDAS (edit .cshrc and define PATH, MCDATA, etc. according to the instructions on the Unidata McIDAS-X web pages: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/mcx) o configure XCD as per the XCD web pages <as the user 'ldm'> o load the LDM o configure the LDM to run McIDAS-XCD and McIDAS ROUTE PostProcess BATCH files o get the ldm-mcidas decoders for RedHat 6.0 (I need to create these tomorrow!!) o decide on where to store data from the LDM and from XCD decoders o crank up the LDM Please let me know what you think of the installation on nimbus, and if you need any help finishing off the installation. Talk to you later... Tom >From address@hidden Wed Sep 15 11:08:41 1999 Excellent!! I'll make the necessary changes on nimbus.