19990520: software download

>From: Jim Smith <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199905201512.JAA14648

>
>Hi -
>
>  We are licensed users and would like to download the Linux
>version of GEMPAK.  Can you remind us of our password information.
>
>Thank you
>
>Jim Smith
>
>
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>James A. Smith, Professor          address@hidden
>Dept. of Civil Engineering         (609) 258-4615 (office)
>and Operations Research            (609) 258-2799 (fax)
>Princeton University
>Princeton, NJ  08544    
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>

Jim,

The login information you need is:
host- ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
login: gbuddy
password: XXXXXX

The linux binary distribution is located in the subdirectory/file:
nawips-5.4/binary/linux/gempak5.4_pl8_linux.tar.gz

Download the tarfile to the directory you wish to be to top
of your NAWIPS tree and unpack with:
gunzip -c gempak5.4_pl8_linux.tar.gz | tar xvf -

After unpacking, you should edit the Gemenviron file in the top
of thr distribution tree and define the NAWIPS environmental
variable to be the path name of the directory you unpacked in.

After defining the NAWIPS location, source the Gemenviron file in your
csh/tcsh environment with "source Gemenviron".
At this point the executable directory is added to your path and you should
be able to launch Gempak programs. 

Other data directory locations (GEMDATA, HDS, SAT, NTRANS_META) can be defined
in Gemenviron as needed- all other table directories etc are relative to the
NAWIPS directory you define, so that is the only definition that you must
modify from the distribution.

Some things to note:
Gempak uses Motif- which is generally not distributed as part of Linux.
The executables have been statically linked to the Motif library under
RedHat Linux. You might see "font not found" messages if your Linux
distribution does not have all the fonts used by Motif.

Gempak uses a default X visual of 8 bits. Lots of PCs of course have
24 bit color - but the X server must have the default visual defined
a pseudocolor 8 bits. The X command xdpyinfo can be used to verify this.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support