Previous: Installing and Configuring McIDAS-X

Installing McIDAS-X on Unix or macOS Workstations

If you are installing McIDAS-X on a workstation running the Windows 10 operating system, go to Installing McIDAS-X on Windows 10 Workstations.

The system administrator or person who installs McIDAS-X will use these installation instructions. The instructions follow the table below, which lists the Unix and macOS software versions compatible with Unidata McIDAS-X v2022.

Unidata McIDAS-X and -XCD have been successfully built at the UPC and/or SSEC on platforms listed in the following table.

Vendor Operating System
(Processor) Fortran Compiler C Compiler X Server /
X Window System

Apple^® macOS^®
12.3 (Apple) gfortran 12.2 gcc 12.2 XQuartz 2.8.3

macOS^®
12.2 (Intel) gfortran 11.2 gcc 11.2 XQuartz 2.8.1

macOS Notes:

On macOS systems, the compilers and system utilities must be installed in a specific order.
On macOS systems, the installation instructions are different for machines with Intel processors than machines with Apple silicon processors.

See Installing the Required Packages for macOS workstations for the instructions.

Red Hat^™
CentOS
Rocky Enterprise Linux^®
8.5 (Intel) gfortran 8.5 gcc 8.5 packaged with
Enterprise Linux 8.5

Enterprise Linux
7.9 (Intel) gfortran 4.8.5 gcc 4.8.5 packaged with
Enterprise Linux 7.9

Linux Notes:

Problems have been encountered with the Tcl/Tk GUIs when using the Wayland windowing system and/or GNOME 3 desktop environment, which are the defaults on RHEL systems. We recommend using X11 and installing and using Xfce or KDE on RHEL 7, and Xfce on RHEL 8. Using a different desktop environment on either system may result in the McIDAS-X GUIs not displaying correctly or at all.

Enterprise Linux does not install the compress utility by default. You must install compress if you will be configuring your Enterprise Linux workstation as an ADDE remote server.

Cononical^™ Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 LTS gcc
packaged with OS
gfortran
packaged with OS
X11
packaged with OS

Linux Notes:

Problems have been encountered with the Tcl/Tk GUIs when using the Wayland windowing system and/or GNOME 3 desktop environment, which are the defaults on RHEL systems. We recommend using X11 and installing and using Xfce or KDE on RHEL 7, and Xfce on RHEL 8. Using a different desktop environment on either system may result in the McIDAS-X GUIs not displaying correctly or at all.

The compress utility may not be installed by default You must install compress if you will be configuring your workstation as an ADDE remote server.

The McIDAS-X installation consists of seven tasks:

If you have questions about the installation, please send email to Unidata McIDAS Support <support-mcidas@unidata.ucar.edu>.

Vendor	Operating System (Processor)	Fortran Compiler	C Compiler	X Server / X Window System
Apple^®	macOS^® 12.3 (Apple)	gfortran 12.2	gcc 12.2	XQuartz 2.8.3
	macOS^® 12.2 (Intel)	gfortran 11.2	gcc 11.2	XQuartz 2.8.1
	macOS Notes: On macOS systems, the compilers and system utilities must be installed in a specific order. On macOS systems, the installation instructions are different for machines with Intel processors than machines with Apple silicon processors. See Installing the Required Packages for macOS workstations for the instructions.
Red Hat^™ CentOS Rocky	Enterprise Linux^® 8.5 (Intel)	gfortran 8.5	gcc 8.5	packaged with Enterprise Linux 8.5
	Enterprise Linux 7.9 (Intel)	gfortran 4.8.5	gcc 4.8.5	packaged with Enterprise Linux 7.9
	Linux Notes: Problems have been encountered with the Tcl/Tk GUIs when using the Wayland windowing system and/or GNOME 3 desktop environment, which are the defaults on RHEL systems. We recommend using X11 and installing and using Xfce or KDE on RHEL 7, and Xfce on RHEL 8. Using a different desktop environment on either system may result in the McIDAS-X GUIs not displaying correctly or at all. Enterprise Linux does not install the compress utility by default. You must install compress if you will be configuring your Enterprise Linux workstation as an ADDE remote server.
Cononical^™	Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 LTS	gcc packaged with OS	gfortran packaged with OS	X11 packaged with OS
	Linux Notes: Problems have been encountered with the Tcl/Tk GUIs when using the Wayland windowing system and/or GNOME 3 desktop environment, which are the defaults on RHEL systems. We recommend using X11 and installing and using Xfce or KDE on RHEL 7, and Xfce on RHEL 8. Using a different desktop environment on either system may result in the McIDAS-X GUIs not displaying correctly or at all. The compress utility may not be installed by default You must install compress if you will be configuring your workstation as an ADDE remote server.