gmisc, nmisc intallation in ubuntu 10.04

sebastian · Active IRAF User Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 45

Hello there. I was installing gemini package in ubuntu 10.04 and I managed to install it. The problem is that other external packages, such as gmisc and nmisc were not. This could be seen when running gprepare
gmos> gprepar image
ERROR: Cannot open connected subprocess (./x_gmisc.e)
and in deed, this file does not exist.
I couldn't run successfully mkpkg bin.refhat when trying to build the binaries for gmisc
Following the README file, then
cl> mkpkg bin.redhat
Warning, hlib$mkpkg.inc line 5: macro `IRAFARCH' not found
Warning, mkpkg line 133: could not find mkpkg module or label `bin.redhat'
Warning, mkpkg line 133: no entry in mkpkg file for `bin.redhat'

Also when running dir noaolib$*.a from the iraf account I get
Cannot open connected subprocess (./x_system.e)
(when performing the installation steps for nmisc)
Also
softools> mkpkg -p nmisc -p noao update >& nmisc.spool &
ERROR: Logical directory 'uparm$' not defined, cannot query
softools> dir noaolib$*.a

I'm running IRAF V2.14 32bit on x86-64 OS.
I will appreciate any suggestion!!
Thank you in advance!
cheers
sebastian

favilac · Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 8 Location: Hermosillo

Try my installer for Ubuntu 10.04.

It includes iraf 2.14.1 and gemini 1.10 among other packages.

The page with full details:

http://www.astro.uson.mx/favilac/linastro.html

The direct link to the installer:

http://www.astro.uson.mx/favilac/downloads/ubuntu-iraf/iso/IRAF_Ubuntu.iso

Good luck!

emma · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:55 pm Post subject:

Hello sebastian,

The Gemini IRAF package requires that a number of other external IRAF packages are installed (http://www.gemini.edu/sciops/data-and-results/processing-software/requirements). Since you are using IRAF v2.14, you should download the external IRAF packages from http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/ftp/iraf/extern-v214/ EXCEPT for fitsutil, which you should download from http://www.gemini.edu/sciops/data-and-results/processing-software. If you download the appropriate binaries for each of the external IRAF packages, you should not need to recompile any binaries.

Many thanks,

Emma Smile

(Gemini Observatory)

sebastian · Active IRAF User Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 45

@favilac
Gracias! Lo voy a probar. De hecho tengo una version de iraf que es self install, que fue armada en un cd con diversos paquetes externos, tables, stsdas entre otros. No recuerdo el autor, un amigo me lo facilito.
Antes voy a revisar si puedo arreglarlo manualmente ya que tengo muchos datos y cosas procesasdas del trabajo y reinstalar las cosas no me deja muy tranquilo a esta altura.
De nuevo muchas gracias por los links, te felicito por tu sitio!
De paso te dejo el mio
www.fisica.edu.uy/~sbruzzone
un abrazo y gracias
sebastian

sebastian · Active IRAF User Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 45

@favilac
Gracias! Lo voy a probar. De hecho tengo una version de iraf que es self install, que fue armada en un cd con diversos paquetes externos, tables, stsdas entre otros. No recuerdo el autor, un amigo me lo facilito. (wait, pero me paso TU version! hehe)
Te felicito por confeccionar este instalador!

Antes voy a revisar si puedo arreglarlo manualmente ya que tengo muchos datos y cosas procesasdas del trabajo y reinstalar las cosas no me deja muy tranquilo a esta altura.

De nuevo muchas gracias por los links, te felicito por tu sitio!
De paso te dejo el mio y un blog que tengo con un colega
www.fisica.edu.uy/~sbruzzone
www.elasterismo.blogspot.com
Ahora con los binarios paree estar funcionando!

Un abrazo y muchas gracias por el support!
sebastian

@emma
Hi emma, thank you for your reply. Actually I have several external packages installed already, such as tables, stsdas, wcstools, telarchive color, pyraf, x11iraf, guiapps.
And recently added nmisc, gmisc and gemini.
I've installed those packages from an iraf CD distribution arranged by F. Avila (favilac). A very useful thing!
Well, at the moment I managed to run gprepare and it went well after downloading the redhat binaries. The previous time I did not called the fitsutil package from the login.cl thus nhedit was not defined.

Thank you so much for you repy, I will start reducing this gmos data now.
Sincerely,
sebastian

sebastian · Active IRAF User Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 45

Hi again. I've found something odd. Even when loading fitsutil at the login.cl file, I receive:
ERROR: Iraf Main: Unknown task name (nhedit)
when calling hedit task.
But, the other tasks from that package seems to work when called.
I did not load the package from the ecl environment in that case, just added the package in the login.cl file

On the other hand, after loading the fitsutil package from the ecl environment, everything works just fine.
I've downloaded the fitsutil-bin.redhat.tar.gz 26-Aug-2005 15:25
package and I'm running IRAF V2.14
thanks in advance.
cheers
sebastian

fitz · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 2:29 pm Post subject:

Be sure that any packages you load or variables you define are done before the final 'keep' statement in the login.cl (or loginuser.cl) file, otherwise they won't be remembered. You can use the 'pack' command to list which packages are currently load to see if it is defined.

sebastian · Active IRAF User Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 45

Thank you fits for your replay. When defining the packages in the login.cl file I've included them before the keep statement. When using the package command it correctly shows all the packages included in the login.cl.
Also when running gireduce or gprepare, I have to manually load fitsutil before
running those tasks, otherwise, the tasks would complain:
ERROR: Iraf Main: Unknown task name (nhedit)
After running gireduce and gmosaic successfully on gmos data , the mosaic image still has the detector gaps. Is that normal?
Cheers
Sebastian

sebastian · Active IRAF User Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 45

Hi again. I've managed to solve the problem by not loading fitsutil package and to loading gmisc package instead. Actually, nhedit.x is present in both fitsutil package and gmisc, probably leading to the error previously mentioned. So far grepare, gireduce and gmosaic seem to work. Still with the detector gaps in the images, after the

GMOSAIC All 1 images successfully mosaiced.
GMOSAIC --------------------
GMOSAIC Exit status: SUCCESS
GMOSAIC Log closed at [Mon 15:35:26 26-Dec-2011]
GMOSAIC ------------------------------------------------------------------

cheers.
sebastian

fitz · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:07 pm Post subject:

Sorry, somebody more familiar with the tasks and data formats would need to comment about whether still having the gaps is normal at this stage, I know nothing about it.

donzelli · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:50 pm Post subject:

Hi Emma,

the directory http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/ftp/iraf/extern-v214/ does not have GMISC for macintel. Could you please tell me where can I download the GMISC macintel version for IRAF 2.14?

regards

sebastian · Active IRAF User Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 45

@donzelli
Do you mean the macintel binary file? I've found it here
http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/ftp/ftp/extern/gmisc-bin.macintel.tar.gz
I've found the bin.redhat binaries just there for ubuntu.
regards

sebastian

donzelli · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 11:50 am Post subject:

thanks Sebastian!
I've used the gmisc I"ve found here:
http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/ftp/iraf/extern-v215/
and it also works with the IRAF v2.14.

regards

sebastian · Active IRAF User Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 45

Hi donzelli.
Have you managed to run gmosaic to build up a gmos mosaic?
I'm just asking since after that, I'm still having the detectors gaps in the final image and it's the firts time that I'm using this package.
(no errors from gmosaic, gprepare nor gireduce)
thank you!
cheers

sebastian

donzelli · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:39 pm Post subject:

No. I'm not. I'm just reducing GMOS spectra and Emma helped me a lot to get very nice results. As you probably noted already, there is no manuals for any GEMINI routine. So, you have no other way but to ask somebody.
ciao