Archive for the 'IRAF' Category
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.
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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…
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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.
- Download the TABLES source and expand it into
/iraf/extern/tables/
- Download the appropriate TABLES binaries and expand them into
/iraf/extern/tables/bin.macosx or /iraf/extern/tables/bin.macintel.
- Change the symlink of
bin to the appropriate bin.whatever
- Do the same procedure with STSDAS, putting the source in
/iraf/extern/stsdas and the binaries in the appropriate /iraf/extern/stsdas/bin.something directory, also fixing the bin symlink.
- Edit the extern.pkg file (often, this merely involves un-commenting (removing the #) from a few lines).
Then you should be good to go. Questions? Feel free to leave a comment.
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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.
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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!
Download X11IRAF 1.5DEV for Intel Macs .pkg Installer
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Well, I don’t have an Intel-based Mac but I think I have successfully created a .pkg installer for IRAF 2.13 BETA 2. The install process is the same, create the IRAF User, run the installer, then run the install script … and I just realized I forgot to put the .pkg installer in a folder with a README, but oh well. Someone with an Intel Mac and some bravery, give it a shot. It’s available at the download page.
Update A commenter says it seemed to work! Any other reviews, please post in comments.
Another Update It would appear the name of the .pkg is wrong, it says 2.12 BETA 2 but it’s 2.13, I assure you.
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Check out iraf.net right now for links to binaries of IRAF and some external packages running natively on Intel Macintoshes! If you have a Macbook or intel Mac mini, here’s your chance to test them out and help find any bugs, etc.
FYI, it has been reported that IRAF will run in rosetta fairly painlessly. Can IRAF run in a mixed mode where some external packages are in rosetta and some native? I don’t know, I bet not. Someone wants to buy ME a Mac mini I’ll let you know. 
Update My Universal Binary of the IRAF Button is now available on the IRAF Button page.
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