CIDD-Binary-Release

How to install the CIDD binary release?

The CIDD display is tricky to compile, requiring a 32-bit mode for the build. We compile CIDD and package it up into a binary tar file, from which it can be installed.

1. Download the tar file

You can find the tar file under the latest releases page on github:

• lrose-core releases

Here is an example name from the 2020/07/01 release:

lrose-cidd-20200701.bin.x86_64.tgz

2. Untar the tar file

Untar the file into a temporary directory. Here we use the above file as an example:

cd /tmp

tar xvfz ~/Downloads/lrose-cidd-20200701.bin.x86_64.tgz

3. Perform the installation

cd /tmp/lrose-cidd-20200701.bin.x86_64

./install_cidd_bin_release.py

This will install the CIDD binaries into /usr/local/lrose/bin .

The relevant files are:

/usr/local/lrose/bin/CIDD

/usr/local/lrose/bin/lrose-cidd_runtime_libs

The lrose-core_runtime_libs directory contains most of the 32-bit libraries that were used during the compile and build.

4. Install 32-bit runtime support

To ensure that you have 32-bit runtime support for CIDD, you will need to install the relevant 32-bit packages.

The best way to do that is to run a python script from lrose-core.

mkdir ~/git

cd ~/git

git clone https://github.com/ncar/lrose-core

cd lrose-core/build

install_linux_packages.py --cidd32

install_linux_packages.py will determine the operating system version from the /etc/os-release file. It will then install the required packages for that version of the OS.

5. Running CIDD

You should now be able to run CIDD.

The following is a good test:

exec /bin/csh

 # set resources
 set timestr = `date -u +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`
 set XResourcesFile = /tmp/XResources4CIDD.${timestr}
 touch $XResourcesFile
 echo "OpenWindows.MonospaceFont: 7x13" >> $XResourcesFile
 echo "OpenWindows.RegularFont: 6x13" >> $XResourcesFile
 echo "OpenWindows.BoldFont: 6x13bold" >> $XResourcesFile
 xrdb -nocpp -override $XResourcesFile
 /bin/rm -f $XResourcesFile
 if (-e ~/.Xdefaults) then
   xrdb -nocpp -override ~/.Xdefaults
 endif
 # set fonts
 xset fp= /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/
 xset fp= /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/
 xset fp= /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
 # start CIDD
 /usr/local/lrose/bin/CIDD -font fixed -p http://front.eol.ucar.edu/displayParams/CIDD.pecan 

This should download data remotely from NCAR/EOL, and display it on CIDD.