Installation of 2.13BETA2 Red Hat binaries on Debian Sarge

emiliano

Hello,
I just installed the 2.13beta2 Red Hat linux (rhux) binaries on my PIII laptop running Debian Sarge (3.1) and it works great! Very Happy

Many thanks to Mike and the other iraf developers.

Here the installation instructions.
With respect to a normal iraf installation you need a few caveats:

(1) first of all, install the "termcap-compat" package. From root:

fitz · Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 5:44 am Post subject:

Hi Emiliano,

Thanks for the post. The idea of a '-m' flag to the install script is interesting and probably something I'll include. I do have a few small comments however: The termcap-compat is now needed for the ECL but I've already modified the build so this isn't needed.

More importantly, I presume you've defined an IRAFARCH in your environment as 'redhat'? This is why you're able to install in a bin.redhat directory but for users who don't define an environment things like the cl.csh check for the existance of a /etc/redhat-release file when determining the arch. On Debian this won't be found and the empty bin.linux will be used instead. For the final release I'd like to merge all the linux versions to avoid stuff like this. It is good to know that the current redhat binaries work under Debian Sarge, but a simpler install may be to simply install the IB/NB file under a 'bin.linux' directory and the for the HSI copy the iraf$unix/bin.redhat to iraf$unix/bin.linux (or make a symlink). The HSI bin contains the XC/MKPKG binaries but also has the hardcopy printer translators (which is why the install script is looking there when making links in the system).

Anyway, thanks again for the input. BTW, I have recently built the system under Sarge and there weren't any problems or hiccups. Same goes for some other debian-based releases.

Cheers,
-Mike

emiliano · Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:32 am Post subject:

Hello Mike,
I forgot to define IRAFARCH Shocked

anyway, from the ecl:

fitz · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject:

riczan · Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 1

Hello,

Here is my 99 cents contribution. I just successfully instaled IRAF beta in linux gentoo using the redhat binaries (untared into *.linux) as suggested.

I wast getting the foreach: No match error while running the install script and the solution was to create a simlink in:

/iraf/iraf/unix/

from bin.linux to bin.redhat:

cd /iraf/iraf/unix/
ln -s bin.redhat bin.linux

installed successfuly but...
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I also had to install the
libtermcap-compat libraries

emerge -v libtermcap-compat

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cheers
It works!!!

now external packages...

rubab · Joined: 18 Jun 2007 Posts: 17

This page describes how to setup IRAF on a Ubuntu/Debian machine. Apart from the exact commands, there are some instructions in square brackets that need to be followed. Installation of X11IRAF, DS9, Tables, and STSDAS are included.

http://geco.phys.columbia.edu/~rubab/iraf/