Hi Nathan, re: > Can McIDAS be installed on a CentOS 5 machine, There should be no problems installing McIDAS-X on a CentOS 5 machine. I would recommend that, if at all possible, you upgrade your machine to CentOS 6, however. I work in 64-bit CentOS 6.3 as my development environment for McIDAS-X. re: > and are there any special > instructions I need to compile McIDAS on CentOS 5? There is nothing about CentOS 5 that is any different than any other OS with respect to building McIDAS-X. The check list is reasonably short: - make sure that you have a full development environment installed on your machine - create a 'mcidas' account - make sure that the 'mcidas' account has sufficient disk space in which to download, unpack, build and install McIDAS-X The following list of packages that I needed to install in Fedora 14 and CentOS 6 for the McIDAS build to succeed: Fedora 14: Development -------------------------------------- gcc gcc-gfortran gcc-c++ byacc flex ncurses ncurses-devel libX11-devel libXt-devel libXext-devel kernel-devel kernel-headers Fonts -------------------------------------- xorg-x11-fonts-misc <- for mctext xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi <- for McGUI xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi <- for McGUI CentOS 6.1 (which automatically upgraded to 6.2 and later to 6.3): Development -------------------------------------- gcc-gfortran gcc-c++ byacc flex ncurses-devel libXt-devel libXext-devel Fonts -------------------------------------- xorg-x11-fonts-misc <- for mctext xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi <- for McGUI xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi <- for McGUI Question: - will you be installing packages needed for software development, or will this be done by your system administrator? The nice thing about RedHat OS variants (e.g., Fedora, CentOS, Scientific Linux, etc.) is that one can use 'yum' for package management. Someone with 'root' privilege can install all of the needed packages in a few minutes (depending on one's Internet connection speed). After that, the McIDAS build (as 'mcidas', not 'root') should proceed smoothly. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: LWT-900470 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed
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