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 2007.

McIDAS-X 2007 was tested on these versions only. The McIDAS Users' Group is extremely limited in its ability to support sites running 2007 with other software versions.

Vendor	Operating System	Fortran compiler	C compiler	X Server / X Window System
Apple^®	Mac OS^® X 10.4 Intel	g77: 3.4 (available for free at http://hpc.sourceforge.net)	gcc: 4.0 (packaged with Mac OS X 10.4)	packaged with Mac OS X 10.4
Apple^®	Mac OS X 10.4 PPC	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 3.1	vendor : HP C/ANSI C 11.11.16	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^® 4.0 in 32 or 64 bit mode	g77 : 3.4.6	gcc : 3.4.6	packaged with Enterprise Linux 4.0
Red Hat^™	Linux Notes: 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. We recommend that you run your Enterprise Linux workstations in 32 bit mode. The McIDAS-X 2007 core software has been fully system tested in 64 bit mode, but many other problems have been reported, especially with locally developed code. 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^™ 10 OS SPARC Platform Edition	vendor : Sun Studio ^™ 11 --or-- g77 : 3.4.6	vendor : Sun Studio 11 --or-- gcc : 3.4.6	packaged with Solaris 10
Sun^™	Solaris 10 OS x86 Platform Edition	g77 : 3.4.6	gcc : 3.4.6	packaged with Solaris 10

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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