IRAF 2.14 Available – Installers forthcoming here.
December 4th, 2007 by Marcos
IRAF 2.14 has been announced and is available for download. The Mac (PPC and Intel) versions appear to work properly on both Leopard and Tiger. I’ll try and have installers made for these today. Certainly, I can test the Intel one easily but it’s harder for me to test the PowerPC version so once it’s up if someone out there could test it, that’d be appreciated.
Update The Intel installer is available here – Download IRAF 2.14 for Intel Macs .pkg installer (57MB). My prescribed update method is simple. Change to the IRAF user and do:
% cd /
% mv iraf iraf_old
Run the installer and then:
% mv /iraf_old/extern /iraf/extern/
That should preserve all your external packages. You will most likely want to copy over the extern.pkg from your old install.
% cd /iraf_old/iraf/unix/hlib
% cp extern.pkg /iraf/iraf/unix/hlib/extern.pkg
That should work. Let me know if there are any problems – it worked ok for me. I’d keep /iraf_old around for a while just to be safe. And remember any installer errors are probably permission issues but be sure to check the log first before emailing me with any problems.
Joy Says
Not that I have a whole lot of time, but I do have a PowerPC (G4). What is involved with testing the installer?
Dec 4th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Marcos Says
Well, installing it and making sure it actually works.
I still haven’t made the PPC one though. I’ll try and get to that soon.
Dec 5th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Louis Says
I’m trying to install IRAF for the first time, so I have no external packages (and so my install routine differs a slight bit from what’s above). When I run the installer it bugs out with a warning stating that: “The installer could not install some files in /.” I’m in the IRAF user account, and I’m in the correct directory, etc. etc. Does anybody have any idea what’s going wrong?
Jan 27th, 2008 at 4:57 am
Marcos Says
@ Louis – Hmmm, that’s mysterious. Did you check the installer log (per the link on the post) to see what exactly went wrong? My guess is some permissions issue. / needs to be writable by the admin and IRAF needs to be an admin.
Jan 27th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Louis Says
I fiddled around with some stuff and eventually got it to work–sort of. I still have no idea how to install ds9 or other packages.
Jan 27th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Marcos Says
ds9 is not an external package to IRAF. It’s just a program. You download it from Harvard SAO (either the MacOS X version, or the “darwin” command line version) and then double click it or put it in your PATH and run it.
Other external packages that run within IRAF, such as STSDAS or TABLESs are installed in /iraf/extern/ and defined in /iraf/iraf/unix/hlib/extern.pkg. Instructions are available either from the original authors of the external package, or using the installers available here in Downloads. Be sure to get the appropriate Intel or PPC version.
Jan 28th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Mike Says
Do your IRAF 2.14 installers contain the 1.14.2008 critical update?
Feb 29th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Marcos Says
Yikes, no – I think I dropped the ball on the Jan 14 update. I’ll get on the that soon, hopefully by week’s end.
Mar 12th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
sara Says
It’s my first iraf installation, I have a mac leopard. I installed iraf using the file .pkg from the account iraf. It created a dir /iraf with two subdir iraf and irafbin. Everything looks fine but It doesn’t work. I don’t find the executable file cl. May be is just a problem of path, but I don’t understand!
Aug 26th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Marcos Says
Sara, take a look at the IRAF pages linked at the top of the site. You need to run mkiraf and create a login.cl file, as well as running the install script which puts an alias to the cl in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin
Aug 31st, 2009 at 8:16 pm