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Installing McIDAS-XCD 2006

To begin this procedure, you must be logged on as user mcidas.

1. First, build the XCD executables:
   Type: cd ~mcidas/mcidas2006/src
   Type: make xcd

   When make is finished, you will be ready to install Unidata McIDAS-XCD.

2. If this is the first installation of McIDAS-XCD on this workstation, proceed to step 4.

3. If McIDAS-XCD routines are running, you must force them to exit until the installation of the new distribution is complete.

   First, become the user running the LDM (assumed here to be the user ldm):

   Type: su - ldm

   Next, go to the etc directory:

   Type: cd ~ldm/etc

   and use your favorite text editor to modify pqact.conf:

   Change:

   # Entries for XCD decoders
   DDPLUS|IDS	^.* PIPE
          xcd_run DDS
   HRS	^.* PIPE
          xcd_run HRS
          

   To:

   # Entries for XCD decoders
   #DDPLUS|IDS	^.* PIPE
   #	xcd_run DDS
   #HRS	^.* PIPE
   #	xcd_run HRS
          

   and then send a HUP signal to pqact:

   Type: ldmadmin pqactHUP

   Next, kill the process startxcd.k:

   Type: kill -9 pid_of_startxcd.k

   Note that there should be two invocations of startxcd.k running; one should be the child of the other. If you have more than two invocations of startxcd.k running, it means that the method you are using to invoke startxcd.k is incorrect. For now, simply kill all invocations of startxcd.k.

   Finally, exit back to the mcidas login:

   Type: exit

4. Making sure that you are still in the McIDAS-X package source directory (~mcidas/mcidas2006/src), install Unidata McIDAS-XCD:
   Type: make install.xcd

   This will install the Unidata McIDAS-XCD executable, help, and ancillary data files in the ~mcidas/bin, ~mcidas/help, ~mcidas/data, and ~mcidas/workdata directories.

   If you think that you will be doing XCD development (trust me, this is not likely), then you should instead run:

   Type: make install.xcdall

   In addition to the executable, help, and ancillary data files, this will install the XCD include files and library.

5. At this point, the building and installation of McIDAS-XCD is complete. You should refer to the McIDAS-X/-XCD v2006 Unidata McIDAS v2006 Release Notes and complete any required actions listed there.

   After completing any required actions, you can logoff.

   Type: exit