README_INSTALL_BIN.md

INSTALLING an LROSE binary release

NOTE for Mac OSX: Make sure your environment is ready for installation.

Choose your install directory (prefix location)

The default is: /usr/local/lrose

Download the LROSE binary release

Create a directory for the release:

  mkdir release
  cd release

Download the binary tar file from:

  https://github.com/NCAR/lrose-core/releases

For a 64-bit LINUX system, a typical binary release would be:

  lrose-20180430.bin.x84_64.tgz

For a Mac OSX system, a typical binary release would be:

  lrose-20180430.bin.mac_osx.tgz

Untar the release

  cd release
  tar xvfz lrose-20180430.bin.x86_64.tgz

The release will be unpacked into a subdirectory:

  release/lrose-20180430.bin.x86_64

So go there:

  cd release/lrose-20180430.bin.x86_64

Installing

If you run:

  ./install_bin_release.py

it will install into the default location:

  /usr/local/lrose/bin

You can specify where to perform the install (on Linux only):

  ./install_bin_release.py --prefix ~/lrose

will install into

  ${HOME}/lrose/bin

For LINUX, the dynamic run-time libraries will be found in:

  ..../bin/lrose_runtime_libs

i.e. in a subdirectory of the bin directory.

Troubleshooting

For LINUX:

This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "". Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Make sure Qt5 is installed

yum install Qt5

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For Mac OSX:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/netcdf/lib/libnetcdf.13.dylib. Referenced from: /usr/local/lrose/bin/RadxPrint Reason: image not found

Make sure netcdf is installed

brew install ...