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Preparing the mcidas Account

Follow the steps below to prepare the mcidas account.

    1. If the workstation does not have a mcidas account, have the system administrator make one.

    2. Log on to the workstation as mcidas .

    3. Modify the PATH of the mcidas account so that it contains the necessary directories when you log on; refer to the table below. The default PATH of the mcidas account may not contain all the required directories or have them in the correct order.

    Operating System

    Modification

    All operating systems

    If you will be building McIDAS-X using the gcc and g77 compilers, you must also include the directory containing the gcc compilers in the mcidas account's PATH . See below for other changes needed for each operating system.

    AIX 5L version 5.2

    none necessary

    IRIX 6.5.21

    none necessary

    Enterprise Linux 3.0

    none necessary

    Mac OS X 10.3

    none necessary

    HP-UX 11.11

    add this directory to the PATH :
    /usr/bin/X11

    also add these two directories:
    /opt/ansic/bin
    and:
    /opt/fortran90/bin
    before these directories in the PATH :
    /bin
    /usr/bin

    Solaris 9

    add these two directories:
    /opt/SUNWspro/bin
    /usr/ccs/bin
    if the PATH contains:
    /usr/ucb or /usr/local/bin
    it must follow:
    /opt/SUNWspro/bin
    /usr/ccs/bin
    /usr/bin

    4. Log out and log on again for the changes to take effect.


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