McIDAS User's Guide
Version 2006

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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 2006.

McIDAS-X 2006 was tested on these versions only. The McIDAS Users' Group is extremely limited in its ability to support sites running 2006 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
Mac OS X 10.4 g77: 3.4.3
(available for free at
http://fink.sourceforge.net)
gcc: 4.0
(packaged with
Mac OS X 10.4)		 packaged with
Mac OS X 10.4
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 5.3.3 vendor :
XLF 8.1.0
--or--
g77 : 3.4.4		 vendor :
XLC 6.0
--or--
gcc : 3.4.4		 AIXwindows 5.3.3
Red Hat™ Enterprise Linux® 3.0 g77 : 3.4.3 gcc : 3.4.3 packaged with
Enterprise Linux 3.0
Enterprise Linux 4.0 on 64 bit g77 : 3.4.4 gcc : 3.4.4 packaged with
Enterprise Linux 4.0
Notes:
  1. 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.
  2. Due to unresolved issues, ADDE remote servers are not supported on 64 bit installs of Enterprise Linux 4.0.
  3. Enterprise Linux 4.0 does not install Unix compress by default. So you must install compress if you will be configuring your Enterprise Linux 4.0 workstation as an ADDE remote server.
SGI™ IRIX® 6.5.21 vendor :
SGI Fortran 77 7.4.2
--or--
g77 : 3.3.2		 vendor:
ANSI C 7.4.2
--or--
gcc : 3.3.2		 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
Solaris 9 OS x86 Platform Edition g77 : 3.3.2 gcc : 3.3.2 packaged with
Solaris 9

 

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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