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  • Subject: more about gempak
  • Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:26:45 -0500
Dear Support,
This is an additional note concerning Gempak on our Linux machine. I was able to get it to run, but needed to make the model designations have the ".gem" suffix. Having done that, it seems to run okay. 

Frank Colby
UMass Lowell

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Dear Support,
I have just installed the latest version of Gempak on a linux machine, using the binary distribution. I unzipped, untarred the file (this is the first time Gempak has been installed on this machine), edited the Gemenviron.profile, sourced it, and was able to navigate using the symbolic names, so the sourcing worked. I then tried to run garp, and I get the main window, but as soon as I click on the "display model data" button, it crashes with a "segmentation fault", without opening the dialog box. I searched the support archives and found one similar problem, but that was for an upgrade installation, and the problem was the previous version had not been removed. Any other places I should look? It seems like this should be something very basic.....
I made some changes to the Garp_defaults file, and got some new errors -- about XMtext and fonts not supported -- do I have to do a make install for Garp, even with a binary dist.? I"m running on Redhat 9.
The other interesting thing is that surface data displays fine, and if I click on upperair data, the dialog box opens, even though there is no data. 
Frank Colby
UMass Lowell