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>From: alan anderson <address@hidden> >Organization: St. Cloud State >Keywords: 199910082015.OAA10268 McIDAS-X 7.60 ADDE SFCPLOT RAOBPLOT Alan, >I ran into a problem that is likely related to my lack of proficiency >with unix, so thought i better check with you. > >When doing the unpack of the mcupdate.tar.Z, > >zcat mcupdate.tar.Z | tar xvf - ../src/upcguiprocs.tcl > >I get the following > > tar: ../src/upcguiprocs.tcl permission denied > file not extracted I ran into this this morning and redid the compressed tar file. Try FTPing mcupdate.tar.Z again and redoing the extraction. >I am doing this as mcidas, in mcidas' home directory, /home/mcidas >and mcidas owns the file mcupdate.tar.Z. so I don't understand the lack >of permission. The problem was in the tar file itself. >Also, the ../src/ in the tar command implies a subdirectory >src, which does not exist in /home/mcidas. I created a /src, but this >did not change the result. You need to FTP mcupdate.tar.Z to the ~mcidas/mcidas7.6/update directory, not to ~mcidas. You should remove the directory ~mcidas/src that you created. >In your message, I understand the removal of the old upcguiprocs.tcl > (rm ~/bin/upcguiprocs.tcl), but why do the link to replace >it? why not just use the new upcguiprocs.tcl ? An "install" in McIDAS simply links files from the build directories to the installation directories. My instructions about removing the copy in ~/bin and then doing the link is not needed for Sun Solaris users, but it is needed for Linux users. I chose to make the instructions work for whatever OS the user has: <login as 'mcidas'> cd ~mcidas/mcidas7.5/update ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu <user> <pass> cd unix/760/bugfix binary get mcupdate.tar.Z quit zcat mcupdate.tar.Z | tar xvf - ../src/upcguiprocs.tcl On your system(s) you should find that the copy of upcguiprocs.tcl in ~mcidas/bin is actually the same as the one in ~mcidas/mcidas7.6/src. On Linux systems, these would be different files. Tom