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19991123: Gempak download information

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  • Subject: 19991123: Gempak download information
  • Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 14:53:02 -0700
Chris,

You can download LDM software from our anonymous ftp server
ftp.unidata.ucar.edu under the directory pub/ldm5.

Your topology information as to who you feed from, and
who is feeding from you is at:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/idd/sitelist.html


The information you need to download gempak is:
host: ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
login: gbuddy
passwd: XXXXXX

Please record the above information for your records.

Here are the general source download and building instructions. If
you are running Solaris x86 or Linux, you can download binary distributions
for these platforms. In particular, GEMPAK requires Motif which is not
part of Linux (must be purchased separately), so you would likely
need to download the binary distribution.

The source distribution for building is found under
~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/gempak54upc_pl12.tar.gz

The current tar file is patched through patch level 12.

To build Gempak from source, download and unpack the distribution into
a clean directory. Edit the csh file Gemenviron in the top directory
and define the NAWIPS environmental variable to be the directory you
unpacked into. Source the Gemenviron variables into your csh
environment to define $NAWIPS and all the tree locations relative to
NAWIPS. Then, if your system is standard configuration for Solaris,
Solaris for Intel (X86) IRIX, OSF/1, AIX, Linux, HPUX- you should be able 
to just type "make all", followed by "make install" when the compilation 
finishes. 
If you have libraries in non-standard places, then the 
$NAWIPS/config/Makeinc.xxxxx
file for your OS would have to be modified. You should not modify the 
optimization levels since some compilers don't work well with aggressive
optimization.

Documentation for GEMAPK can be found as postscript files under
the $NAWIPS/doc/User_Guide directory, as well as online at:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/tutorial/

All users that use Gempak should source Gemenviron into their csh
environment to define the Gempak variables and add the executable
directory into their path. Once the distribution is installed,
you can edit the data directory locations defined in Gemenviron-
but thats not a priority for building.

Steve Chiswell


>From: "J. Christopher Clarke" <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199911232051.NAA09488

>Hey folks,
>
>       I have, once again, lost my login and password to get
>the code for LDM, Gempak, etc.  I thought I had saved my
>email from last year... :)  We lost our machine the other day
>and I need to install everything from scratch.  I lost all of my
>customized files, so I don't know who we were feeding; they
>haven't complained so I am not overly worried.
>
>       Could you help me out here?  Thanks
>
>Chris
>
>PS: Why does this kind of thing ALWAYS happen when you're
>supposed to be taking a vacation? :)
>
>_____________________________________________________
>
>J.  Christopher Clarke                address@hidden    
>Assistant Professor  
>University of Louisiana at Monroe
>Dept. of Geosciences                     
>_____________________________________________________
>
>"This isn't flying.  This is falling... with style."
>_____________________________________________________
> 
>