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[McIDAS #YUN-823771]: McIDAS won't start after instalation

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  • Subject: [McIDAS #YUN-823771]: McIDAS won't start after instalation
  • Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:32:55 -0600
Hi Melvin,

re:
> I installed McIDAS on my computer running Ubuntu Linux. If I enter "mcidasx"
> on the terminal, the McIDAS configuration window starts OK. But when I try
> to start McIDAS from the configuration window or from a terminal entering
> "mcidas", it wont start and the following error appears:
> 
> mcidas@mcidas-desktop:~$ mcidas
> Error in startup script: invalid command name "fileToList"
> while executing
> "fileToList $mcrcfile"
> (procedure "readMcidasrc" line 139)
> invoked from within
> "readMcidasrc "$home/.mcidasrc""
> (file "/home/mcidas/mcidas2006/src/mcidas" line 667)
> 
> 
> I installed McIDAS on my laptop and it worked perfectly. I really hope you
> can help me.

I have seen this kind of thing happen on occasion, and I never knew exactly why
it occurred.  A procedure that has worked in the past -- assuming that the
environment variables needed to build and run are correctly set -- is the
following:

<as 'mcidas'>
cd ~mcidas/mcidas2006/src
make uninstall
make install

Please give this a try and see if your problem doesn't go away.

> Thanks

No worries.
 

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: YUN-823771
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed