Help - Mac OSX

[adamclarke]

Hey

I'm trying to install IRAF on my Macbook running Snow Leopard. I downloaded the 64bit tar file from iraf's website, set up an iraf user as told, and set terminal to run in csh

When I install i get the following:

[AnTaR3s]

Same problem here on my new iMac.
I didn't create an IRAF user, since it worked this way on Ubuntu...

Don't want to switch back to the 2.14 release of Scisoft...

cheers

[adamclarke]

To be honest I have since tried it on my main account i set up upon installation of Snow Leopard too and I had the same issue. :S

Any help here would be very much appreciated. My project time is ticking on and Im beginning to panic a little

[fitz]

It would appear that at some point the build tree had some of the HSI binaries removed for certain architectures, this is what's causing the problem.

What I've done is rebuild he distribution files so you can either try downloading them again, or to simply get the missing binaries you can download

ftp://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/v215/support/hsi_bin.tar.gz

Unpack this file in the $iraf/unix directory (NOT the $iraf), then try rerunning the install script.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

-Mike

[AnTaR3s]

@adamclarke

If this does not work for you, you can get the scisoft package here:
http://web.mac.com/npirzkal/Scisoft/Scisoft.html

This installs IRAF and other components into a completely different environment, so it does not affect your own installation, and works 100%.

cheers

[fitz]

[AnTaR3s]

Yep, thats some reasons, why I don't want to switch back to Scisoft and I really like the 2.15 release so far!!
e.g.: Scisoft killed part of my macports installation last time...


Anyway, your hint helped, IRAF is running now.
There is just one other thing:

Autocompletion (with TAB) and showing previous commands (with up arrow key) does not work...they work in the xgterm, but as soon as I log into IRAF, they stop working...

This has to be a problem of my IRAF installation, since I tried to install x11iraf 1.3.1. I also started IRAF from the bash, where the same error occurs...

thanks for any hint on that.

[fitz]

I guess I'm still working out the bugs in my build scripts.....

Near as I can tell, the ecl.e for macintel was actually the cl.e, hence no tab completion or other readline goodies. Distro was updated yet again, and you can get a working binary from

ftp://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/v215/support/ecl.e.macintel

just install as iraf$bin.macintel/ecl.e

Apologies once again.

[AnTaR3s]

Perfect!!!

No need to apologize, I never had such a good software support before.

@adamclarke: If you experience the same error, don't forget to chmod the correct file permissions for the new ecl.e after replacing the old one, otherwise it won't run.

[adamclarke]

I'm still getting the same error :/ Checked the chmod permissions and made sure I had read write and execute for the new folders and files.

[AnTaR3s]

which error, did you download the hsi_bin.tar.gz mentioned by fitz above and have you followed the instructions?

The ecl.e is just for resolving the autocompletion feature.

[adamclarke]

I did both. Right I have now redownloaded the full OSx 64 bit release.

I now have it working on my iraf account. But when i log into my usual account, and move to the directory I want to run iraf from and type mkiraf, it says it is an unknown command :/

Managed to fix it - changed my terminal Open Shell to "/bin/csh" whereas before it was /usr/bin/login

This was opening it in bash, which I thought was ok, as long as I changed to csh before trying mkiraf. But this doesnt seem to be the case. I have to admit to not fully understanding shells. Though I was told bash would be better for me than csh, and it shouldn't have been as issue, since I can always run csh by just typing the command.

Perhaps someone could clarify for me?

- edit: THere also seems to be an issue that terminal I can set to run in csh and the commands work, though I would prefer to use bash and hand change it when i need iraf, since all my aliases are set up for it, however X11 which I'll need for the graphical use of Iraf seems determined to used bash, and changing it by typing csh then means $ cl wont work :s

- edit2: Managed to find a work around. Instead of opening X11 itself and trying to use IRAF, instead i open Terminal, type xterm, which opens X11 (still says bash which is confusing) and then it works. Bit fiddly though. Would much prefer just to open X11.

[adamclarke]

Right another issue now. I have iraf working seemingly, though the problems with X11 and terminal being different seem usual for mac users so hence is not an issue wth IRAF.

However, I put the new ecl.e in the folder, made sure to chmod it for xwr yet the tab -auto-completion still isn't working :/

[fitz]