CIDD-Binary-Release
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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:
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.