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Hi Ron, Sorry for the slow reply. re: >SuSE is a rpm-based distribution, so reinstalling the ncurses packages >won't change anything. My thinking was that the "skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libcurses.so when searching for -lcurses" message was trying to tell us that the curses library being found (through the link) was not the correct one for the OS installation. I imagined that this could happen if the machine was upgraded from a previous OS. Forcing a reinstallation _should_ rewrite the library and create the links. >I hacked the makefile so the linker would look >for the ncurses libraries instead of curses libaries. That solved the >problem. OK. The fact that this worked and the 'libcurses.a' link did not seems most strange to me. >Now, when I try to run mcidas, I get: >mcidas@resolute:~> bin/mcidas >Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY >environment variable It looks like you started your X window session as one user and then became 'mcidas'. Try setting the Unix DISPLAY environment variable to the host. Alternately, start X windows as 'mcidas'. Then DISPLAY will be set to the default display. >Did I miss something in the confirguration? Nope. This is a problem that will be had with any X window display application (e.g., xterm, xclock, etc.). The Unix/Linux DISPLAY environment variable must be set if the user you are running as did not start X windows. >Thanks, No worries. Cheers, Tom **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: JAX-852168 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Open