Problem installing Tables under Fedora 9

thr3shold · Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 6

I am trying to install Tables under Fedora 9. I got IRAF running OK using http://student.dcu.ie/~reynols7/iraf.html
When I tried installing the tables package following the directions in http://stsdas.stsci.edu/download/stsdas_3.9/stsdas_install_guide_39.pdf
and I got to the portion where it instructs you to issue the command mkpkg redhat I get the following error message:
Warning, hlib@mkpkg.inc line 5: macro 'IRAFARCH' not found /bin/bash: host//mkfloat.csh: No such file or directory

if I try and run IRAF and then tables I get a message saying 'tables' has no param file. Any ideas?

fitz · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:54 am Post subject:

Compiling anything in IRAF requires that you define certain environment variables appropriate for your system e.g.

thr3shold · Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 6

Executing mkpkg tables return the error
Warning, mkpkg line 188: could not find mkpkg module or label 'tables'
Warning, mkpkg line 188: no entry in mkpkg file for 'tables'
I've edited extern.pkg and .cshrc as you suggested. Any other help with this?

fitz · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:46 am Post subject:

thr3shold · Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 6

mkpkg -p tables produces nothing but pages and pages of errors, gongi into IRAF then trying to run tables produces the error
ERROR:Task 'tables' has no param file.

fitz · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject:

Sounds like the package isn't (properly) declared in the hlib$extern.pkg file, e.g.