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Bill, No, you can istall them from whatever account you like. Just make sure that the user running GEMPAK has read access to the files and directories. Steve Chiswell >From: William C Klein <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200304211704.h3LH4p7U027359 >Steve, > >Does it matter what user installs them on the machine? > >Thanks, >Bill >On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Unidata Support wrote: > >> >> William, >> >> The information is included in the README file for the solaris sparc install > ation >> in the binary directory of the GEMPAK software downloads on the portal site, > eg: >> http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/26/README >> >> Basically, the instructions are the same as for unpacking the executables. >> Place the tarfile in your $NAWIPS directory and run: >> gunzip -c gempak_upc5.6.h_libs_sol.tar.gz | tar xvf - >> >> By the way, the current distribution is 5.6.J, and now includes the >> configuration directory in the library tar file to build contrib >> modules using supplied makefiles. >> >> Steve Chiswell >> Unidata User Support >> >> >From: William C Klein <address@hidden> >> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >> >Keywords: 200304032049.h33KnX7U025006 >> >> >I need to install the follwing libraries for GEMPAK: >> > >> >gempak_upc5.6.h_libs_sol.tar.gz >> > >> >What's the standard procedure for doing so? >> > >> >I've been poking around the unidata website and can't find the info that I >> >need. >> > >> >Thanks, >> >Bill >> > >> > >> >--------------------- >> >William C. Klein >> >Webmaster >> >Valparaiso University >> >--------------------- >> > >> >> **************************************************************************** >> Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program >> (303)497-8643 P.O. Box 3000 >> address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Unidata WWW Service http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/support >> **************************************************************************** >> > >--------------------- >William C. Klein >Webmaster >Valparaiso University >--------------------- >