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Unidata McIDAS-X - Update Procedure

• Overview of Updating Unidata McIDAS-X
• Getting and Unpacking the Update
• Backing up Important Files and Building New Executables

Overview of Updating Unidata McIDAS-X

The Unidata McIDAS-X distribution (available in mcidasx2007.tar.gz in the UPC's passworded McIDAS FTP account) will always contain all modifications and additions made to the initial release.

The accumulated set of modifications and additions to the original distribution will always be available in mcupdate.tar.gz and in the FTP unix/2007/bugfix directory. This update file is designed to be unpacked using the Bourne shell script, mcupdate that is contained in the 2007 package directory: ~mcidas/mcidas2007/update.

After your initial Unidata McIDAS-X installation, you should periodically check the Unidata McIDAS-X Updates page for changes that you need to make to your software.

Getting and Unpacking the Update

1. The user mcidas should download the compressed file that has the updates that are needed:
   Web download
   If you are a Registered Unidata User, and have logged into the Unidata web portal, you can download by holding down the Shift key and clicking mouse button 1 on: mcupdate.tar.gz. Make sure to download it to the ~mcidas/mcidas2007/update directory!

   FTP download

   Type: cd ~mcidas/mcidas2007/update
   Type: ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
         <user>
         <pass>
         cd unix/2007/bugfix
         binary
         get mcunpack
         get mcupdate.tar.gz
         quit
   

< as mcidas >

EXIT all active McIDAS-X sessions

Type: cd ~mcidas/mcidas2007/src
Type: make mcx
Type: make install.mcx

<as ldm>

Type: ldmadmin stop

<wait until all LDM processes have exited >

<as mcidas>

Type: cd ~mcidas/mcidas2007/src
Type: make xcd
Type: make install.xcd

<as ldm>

Type: ldmadmin start