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Installing McIDAS-X on Unix or Mac OS X Workstations

The system administrator or person who installs McIDAS-X will use these installation instructions.

The installation instructions follow the table below, which lists the software versions compatible with McIDAS-X 2004.

McIDAS-X 2004 was tested on these versions only. The McIDAS Users' Group is extremely limited in its ability to support sites running 2004 with other software versions.

Vendor	Operating System	Fortran compiler	C compiler	X Window System
Apple^®	Mac OS^® X 10.3	g77: 3.4 (available for free at http://hpc.sourceforge.net)	gcc: 3.3 (packaged with Mac OS X 10.3)	packaged with Mac OS X 10.3
HP^®	HP-UX^® 11.11	vendor: HP Fortran 90 2.5.1 -- or-- g77 : 3.0.3	vendor : HP C/ANSI C 11.11.02 -- or-- gcc: 3.0.3	packaged with HP-UX 11.11
IBM^®	AIX^® 5L version 5.2	vendor : XLF 8.1.0 -- or-- g77 : 3.3.2	vendor : XLC 6.0 -- or-- gcc : 3.3.2	AIXwindows 5.2
Red Hat^™	Enterprise Linux^® WS 3.0	g77 : 3.2.3	gcc : 3.2.3	packaged with Enterprise Linux WS 3.0
SGI^™	IRIX^® 6.5.21	vendor : SGI Fortran 77 7.41 -- or-- g77 : 3.3	vendor: ANSI C 7.41 -- or-- gcc : 3.3	packaged with IRIX 6.5.21
Sun^™	Solaris^™ 9 OS SPARC Platform Edition	vendor : Forte^™ Developer 7 -- or-- g77 : 3.3.2	vendor : Forte Developer 7 -- or-- gcc : 3.3.2	packaged with Solaris 9
Sun^™	Solaris 9 OS x86 Platform Edition	g77 : 3.3.2	gcc : 3.3.2	packaged with Solaris 9

Note: On Linux systems, we recommend that you use the GNOME desktop environment. Other desktops, such as KDE, will not display the McIDAS-X windows correctly.

The McIDAS-X installation consists of seven tasks:

If you have questions about the installation, call the McIDAS Help Desk at (608) 262-2455, or send email to McIDAS User Services .

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