How I upgraded to IRAF 2.12.2
February 13th, 2004 by admin
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p>The first thing I did was log into terminal as the iraf user. I did just by typing “su iraf” in the OS X Terminal. I then renamed my old iraf installation like so:
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% cd /
% mv iraf iraf_old
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p>I then logged into OS X as IRAF and ran my installer for IRAF 2.12.2, which you can find at the downloads page. The installer is still giving the annoying and confusing “errors occurred” warning at the end, but I just ignored that; the files were all there.
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p>Then back to the command line, as the iraf user, I moved my old extern directory back into /iraf and I copied my old extern.PKG file to the appropriate location.
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% cd /iraf_old
% mv extern /iraf/
% cd /iraf_old/iraf/unix/hlib/
% cp extern.pkg /iraf/iraf/unix/hlib/
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p>There’s no need to run the install.sh script again because all the links should still be up and running. When I ran the cl for the first time after upgrading, it did gripe about my login.cl file being “outdated” but it still worked. I went ahead and generated a new login.cl file with mkiraf, edited it to load the packages I wanted, etc. and now all is well.
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