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I'm preparing a Solaris 10 Sparc system from scratch and I normally install a slew of Sunfreeware applications, I wondered if IRAF has any dependencies on these applications to run or to install.

There are no explicit dependencies, however we assume you have a C-shell and X11 installed. GCC and a development environment will be required if you plan to build any external packages from source.

I'm doing an experiment to see what's the least amount of packages required in /usr/local/bin - so far I installed gcc 3.4.6, make 3.82, m4, automake. I ran through the installation process, summary steps...1. created iraf account and set the home directory to /iraf/iraf/local.2. tar extracted the noao.bin.ssun, ib.ssol.sun.tar, ssol.sun.tar3. installed x11iraf in /usr/local/bin4. installed iraf as root set path=($path /usr/local/bin)
setenv iraf /iraf/iraf/
cd $iraf/unix/hlib
source irafuser.csh ./installseems to go through the installation with no "Failed" status, they all say OK. but in the end, the cl was not installed in /usr/local/bin so I created a link to it. but when I run it, if I type "softools" and then "rtar" it says command not found so it's like it didn't install all the way.I wondered if I needed more than the basic packages in /usr/local to make it work right?the other question I had is that the 1st screen has a WARNING message that says the "no-op" flag will be enabled by default. No changes will be made to the system files, however you will be able to see what the script does. Proceed with no-op installation anyway? (yes): so I proceed, but it makes me think something isn't correct and maybe that's why it isn't completely installing.Thanks.JC

ahh, comparing it to a working iraf installation I have, rtar is also a link in /usr/local/bin, so for whatever reason the installation into /usr/local/bin step must not have executed.

The NO-OP flag is either set if the install script senses you are not the 'root' user, or if you explicitly set the "-n" flag when you run install. Either way, the warning telling you "No changes will be made to the system files" explain why the links weren't created.

so that makes sense as to why my /usr/local/bin doesn't get updated. what doesn't make sense is why it's doing that. i installed x11iraf right before that and it put a bunch of files into the directory, so it has right privs.

the problem is that in Solaris 10, the root user doesn't search /usr/ucb and that's where the "whoami" command is found. so it was failing during the "install" script and setting it to "no-op".thanks for the clues!

Just FYI, I've modified the install script for the next release to handle the /usr/ucb stuff on Solaris.