[McIDAS #BZU-651546]: Interesting in McIDAS X Free

Hi Boris,

re:
> I am a student of Dr. Ernesto Caetano, he is assigned to the Department of
> Physical Geography, Institute of Geophysics belonging to the Universidad
> Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Both are working on the investigation of
> mesoscale convective systems in Mexico, using McIDAS, for this reason it is
> necessary to have access to this program.
> 
> I want access to McIDAS X of the Unidata site for use at the University,
> specifically for the research work, required to receive it  master's degree
> in Atmospheric Sciences.
> 
> The use of McIDAS-X, is solely for academic research by graduate students.
> 
> I agree not to redistribute any part of the program.
> 
> LCA. Boris Vladimir Comi Gonzalez
> Centro de Ciencias de la Atmosfera
> Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México

Very good.  I have added you (email address address@hidden) to the
list of non-.edu users allowed to download Unidata McIDAS.  The procedure
to get the distribution is:

- get your system administrator to create the user 'mcidas' on a *nix
  (Unix or Linux) system.  Make sure that this user is allocated enough
  disk space to download and build Unidata McIDAS-X (at least 500 MB)

- login to your machine as the user 'mcidas'

From a web browser:

- login to the Unidata website using the address that was allowed: 
address@hidden

- go to the Downloads page for McIDAS

- click on the 'v2009 Unix Source Code Distribution' link

- download the following files to the home directory of 'mcidas':

  mcunpack
  mcinet2009.sh
  mcidasx2009.tar.gz

- set execute permission on the script 'mcunpack':

  chmod +x mcunpack

- define the McINST_ROOT environment variable:

  C Shell users:

  setenv McINST_ROOT /home/mcidas       <- assuming that /home/mcidas is the
                                           HOME directory for the user 'mcidas'

  Bourne or BASH users:

  export McINST_ROOT=/home/mcidas


Then follow the instructions for building McIDAS-X found in the Unidata McIDAS
Users Guide:

Unidata HomePage
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu

  Software
  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software

    McIDAS
    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/mcidas

Documentation and Training
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/mcidas/#documentation

  McIDAS user's guide
  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/mcidas/current/users_guide/toc.html

Follow the step-by-step instructions in:

Installing McIDAS-X on Unix or Mac OS X Workstations
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/mcidas/current/users_guide/InstallingMcIDAS-XonUnixorMacOSXWorkstations.html#63755

The instructions in 'Preparing the Workstation' may be pertinent to your systems
administrator.

The instructions in 'Preparing the McIDAS Account' are aimed at building Unidata
McIDAS-X.

Please let me know if you have any problems accessing the McIDAS distribution
or in building the package.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: BZU-651546
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed