be wary of macports...i've never had luck there

well I'm gonna get my hands dirty any, just for fun. Have you tried it on Lion?

I remember macjedimatt helped put GEMPAK on my machine, but I never really used it, so I got rid of it

MacPorts has its strengths and weaknesses so I have found

The best way to run GEMPAK on a mac is to run it in a CentOS VM. Trust me on this one. VMs are great because you can tweak them without

worrying about making changes to your main OS. I used to call my VM 'mesocyclone' get it?

MacOS does a lot of things very different from traditional Linux which can make things very difficult sometimes.

ok, good to know. I'll try that

macjedimatt - do you know if the default Desktop - Gnome for CentOS 5.6 contains libX11, openmotif, and libXp libraries needed for GEMPAK?

I don't remember.. I think I had to install open motif. Make sure you install g95 and the gcc compliers.

ok

grr - "the file irqbalance-0.55-15.el5.x86_64.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a corrupt package or corrupt media."

heh... welcome to Linux

I guess trial and error is part of the fun.

I had tried to combine the 2 DVD ISOs images using the cat command, but apparently that corrupted some files

its 2 dvds now? yikes. it wad only one when i did it.

yeah, 5.6 has 1 DVD filled with 4GB of data, the 2nd DVD is 600MB. I was able to successfully install it with just the first DVD