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[GEMPAK #JGQ-519460]: GEMPAK for MAC OS X

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  • Subject: [GEMPAK #JGQ-519460]: GEMPAK for MAC OS X
  • Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:24:29 -0600
> I may not be phrasing my question in the best way.  The software package that 
> Rob sent me was customized to run in a VMware virtual machine on my iMac.  
> Everything was pre-configured for me to pull data from the Unidata servers.  
> If I decide to use the OS X version, would those same pre-configurations be 
> used?  Looking at the source code for the IDM, I don’t see anything in there 
> that seems to be operating-system dependent.  My assumption is that I could 
> just import those scripts into the OS X folder once I have the OS X version 
> extracted.
> 


The OS X version will be downloaded as a tar.gz file and uncompressed to create 
~/GEMPAK7/ (/Users/gempak/GEMPAK7/, usually), and will not touch an LDM 
installation.  

I still do not fully understand what you mean by "pre-configured for me to pull 
data from the Unidata servers" - do you mean requesting data via the Unidata 
IDD using the LDM? 

I think you should be fine moving from virtualized GEMPAK to an OS X binary 
build.  I'll let you know when it's available for download and ask for your 
feedback to make sure everything goes okay.

Michael

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: JGQ-519460
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: Emergency
Status: Open