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On the download page and a direct download link is below.
Download STSDAS for MacOS X PPC .pkg installer
I also finally added a TABLES link on the download page. Although that has been available for weeks now, the link was missing.
Thanks to Killan Braun for nudging me about a STSDAS PPC installer. The files had been sitting on my laptop almost ready for weeks.
.The headline says it all. I’ve actually tested this one. It’s on the download page and a direct download link is below.
Don’t forget that TABLES 3.6 is required to use STSDAS.
.See what happens when someone leaves a comment? They get the .pkg installer they want.
CTIO for PPC is now available on the download page. Here is the direct download link for the impatient.
.MSCRED 4.8 is now available from the download page. I had to completely rebuild these, but thanks to IRAF.net I did not have to compile them myself. I haven’t had a chance to test them out, but they should work. Please post a comment if they work properly or not.
You can also find direct download links below.
The PPC link was broken for … well since this story was posted until Dec 8th. I guess that’s about four days – and yet no one posted a comment or emailed me. Perhaps everyone is using Intel these days…
.I’ve actually tested this one, it seems work properly – you can get it on the download page. Here is a direct download link for the impatient.
Hopefully, I’ll get STSDAS 3.6 for PPC and Intel up soon too.
.Happy Thanksgiving to those in the U.S. My gift to everyone, a TABLES 3.6 installer for Intel Macs (Download Link) which is also listed on the download page.
I have also completed some work on my new script-based system to help speed the process of creating and updating these installers. An STSDAS installer and a PPC version of TABLES should be up soon … the bottleneck with STSDAS is the sheer time to download and then to upload the installers.
Any problems with this installer, please note in the comments.
.Posting over at the IRAF.net Forums, Mike Fitzpatrick discusses the release of new Macintel binaries of IRAF and of external packages that fix a bus error. (Note the handy RSS based feed of IRAF.net forum posts in the left sidebar of this site.)
While work continues (slowly) on the final V2.13 release I’ve decided to update the macintel binaries in the download area that includes this bug fix. At the same time I’ve updated the external package directory with a more complete build set of binaries, and especially macintel binaries linked against the bug fix (e.g. even though you can get macintel STSDAS binaries in their latest release, the ones from this site will avoid the bus error problem).
There is no immediate need for every macintel system to update binaries, however if you experience a bus error using the V2.13b2 system I’d suggest you update the binaries before reporting an error. You do not need to update sources, simply reinstall the ib.macx.x86 and nb.macx.x86 distributions, and/or the ‘bin.macintel’ binaries for the package in question.
Of course, the few Intel .pkg installers I have made available use the old potential-bus-error prone binaries. So… I guess sometime I’ll update them to fix this, and subsequent Macintel binary .pkg installers will include the fix as well.
I have a plan to write some sort of script that automagically will create .pkg installers. Or least, partially automate the process. Certainly, some of the creation is rote and could be streamlined. I think there’s even a command line method of using package maker…
.TABLES and STSDAS 3.6 were released today, with binaries built for both PPC MacOS X and “Macintel” systems. You can check them out from the STScI STSDAS download page.
Also released was STSCI Python. I don’t really know what that is but it has to do with Pyraf.
I will endeavor to build .pkg installers for these before the end of the month. Until then, remember how to install them. First, STSDAS requires TABLES. So, install TABLES first.
/iraf/extern/tables//iraf/extern/tables/bin.macosx or /iraf/extern/tables/bin.macintel.bin to the appropriate bin.whatever/iraf/extern/stsdas and the binaries in the appropriate /iraf/extern/stsdas/bin.something directory, also fixing the bin symlink.Then you should be good to go. Questions? Feel free to leave a comment.
.A (you guessed it, untested) .pkg installer of GUIAPPS for Intel Macs is available on the downloads page. Here’s a direct download link for the impatient.
You might notice I’m making Intel versions of a lot of the smaller packages, and ignoring the elephant in the room, STSDAS. PPC Mac users may also be annoyed that I’m putting up newer and Tiger savvy versions and of installers for Intel Macs, when PPC installers are languishing. These are all good points.
I’ll get around to STSDAS and TABLES sometime. Hopefully, no one will run off and start using scisoft any time soon.
.I can’t test this one either, but Intel X11IRAF 1.5DEV is available on the download page It puts everything where the normal x11iraf installer would put things, in /usr/local. You’ll need /usr/local/bin in your PATH to be able to run xgterm, ximtool, and the like.
Anyone who uses it successfully, leave a comment!
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