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> I support a Linux lab running RHEL 7 currently and a professor now wants to > run AWIPS II in the lab. After looking at your documentation I see that RHEL > 6 is supported by installing the compat-gcc-34-g77 package but this package > is not available in version 7. I did install compat-libf2c-34 but that did > not provide /usr/lib/libg2c.so.0, when trying the yum install it is mainly > giving a conflict error in the /awips2/java with > awips2-java-1.6.0_43-1.x86_64. Is there another package I should be > installing or is AWIPS II not supported in RHEL 7 yet? Hello Brett, I do not have a RHEL/CentOS 7 machine to test right now so I can't be of much help, only to say that 7 is unsupported. Still it's odd that compat-libf2c did not install libg2c. What is returned from the command yum provides /usr/lib/libg2c.so.0 ? Michael James Unidata Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RZN-665650 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Critical Status: Open