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The IRAF Button is an AppleScript Studio GUI launcher for IRAF, display clients, and X11. Updated to version 0.98 on … I don’t know when. Universal Binary.

It’s very important you download IRAF for the correct processor type – Intel or PowerPC. If you’re not sure what kind of processor you have in your Mac, it’s available simply by going to “About this Mac” in the Apple Menu (check out this Apple Support Document for screen shots).

Check the installer log before emailing or commenting when the installers don’t work, and give the exact details from the error message.

IRAF 2.14 Installer for Intel Macs (All Macs sold presently are Intel-processor-based)

  • Download IRAF 2.14 for Intel. The latest and greatest. Check out the release notes for full details on the improvements since 2.13 BETA 2. I believe this will also play nice with Panther. The new installer was made with packagemaker and requires admin authentication so I think it should produce no strange errors about install failing. And it now includes the critical January 14, 2008 update. (Or it will at 6PM EDT, March 14 when the upload finishes.)

IRAF 2.13 Installer for Intel Macs (All Macs sold presently are Intel-processor-based)

IRAF 2.13 Installer for Older, PowerPC Macs

  • Download IRAF 2.13 BETA 2 for PPC Mac OS X.. At long last, the latest version of IRAF from IRAF.net for PowerPC based Macs. This version apparently will not work in Panther (OS X 10.3) but only Tiger Panther/PPC binaries are available at [iraf.net] and I’ll try to package them up but, very few people still run Panther on a PPC Mac, it would seem.

External Packages for Intel Based Macs.

PPC External Packages

The X11IRAF packages for PowerPC are really out of date … version 1.5 is available for PPC Macs at IRAF.net and I’ll try to put those in .pkg file soon.

DS9

It’s best to just get ds9 from the official ds9 web site. DS9 is an X11 image server that works with IRAF and a 24 bit ximtool replacement. I prefer the darwin version, which I place in my PATH and I can run them with the ds9 command. The “MacOS X” versions just put a .app wrapper around the darwin binary, so you can double click it, but it still runs in X11. Since I run X11 in full screen mode, that doesn’t help me, but you might prefer it.

Put the darwin ds9 binary in /usr/local/bin if you want it to work with the IRAF button. They have Mac-Intel versions and there is also an Intel Mac build of ds9 4.08 is availale from IRAF.net.

Poster Template for Apple’s Pages

I have made a poster template for Apple’s Pages – check it out. Pages is great for posters because it supports vector-based PDF and EPS files – unlike Powerpoint which turns nice PDFs into bitmaps and makes plots often blurry for printing.

32 Responses to “Downloads”

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    Felipe Says

    Marcos, do you have the CTIO package avaiable for downloading? If so, I can’t find it. I found it in another sites but it has been very difficult to install it. Your links allow easy installation for the external packages so I thought you could have the link for this package as well.

    Dec 19th, 2006 at 2:19 pm   

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    Marcos Says

    Ask and ye shall receive – a CTIO package for PPC is on its way. In a perfect world, I’d be able to make one installer that intelligently installs the right set of binaries. Hmm….

    Dec 19th, 2006 at 2:51 pm   

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    Knox Says

    Thank you for having provided this. I was able to install the beta on my intel mac without difficulty.

    Dec 26th, 2006 at 1:21 am   

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    Marcos Says

    Hmm, can you look at the Installer Log (when the installer is running, it’s in the Window menu) and let me know what it says exactly? I just tested the installer on my iBook and it seemed to work fine.

    Feb 13th, 2007 at 6:46 am   

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    Rohit Says

    Hello Marcos,

    We met at the UF conference in April. I am glad we have IRAF for mac, for I just cannot work on Linux machines, so kudos to you for this excellent website! I have been using WMKONSPEC package or low-dispersion NIRSPEC reduction. I would like to know if there is any for the Intel Macs. I believe the one on the website: http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/inst/nirspec/DataRed.html is for Linux only. Please let me know, If there is a way to create it for Macs, that will be of immense help!

    Thanks again

    Rohit

    Jun 11th, 2007 at 8:52 am   

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    Marcos Says

    If it’s an IRAF package, and it appears to be, you should be able to download the source and compile it within IRAF on your Mac. You’ll need to be sure that the IRAFARCH environmental variable is set to macintel, but I would imagine it’d work. (typically you just download the source, and run mkpkg from within iraf).

    Try posting on iraf.net if you have problems, they should be able to help.

    Jun 12th, 2007 at 3:59 pm   

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    Chris Says

    Hey Marcos, I keep getting an error (Decompression failed) when I try to download the installer (iraf_macintel.tgz). Do you know what I might be doing wrong? Thanks, Chris

    Sep 26th, 2007 at 9:33 am   

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    Marcos Says

    Hmm, no – I don’t know why you’d be getting that error for the IRAF intel downloader. The md5 checksum is identical to the file I have on on my own machine here which downloads without any trouble.

    Maybe try using curl? Something like curl -O http://macsingularity.org/files/iraf_macintel.tgz

    Incidentally, the MD5 on iraf_macintel.tgz is:

    f2dd793387585cb7543d8a03c1cc370

    Oct 1st, 2007 at 12:59 pm   

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    Rohit Says

    Hey Marcos,

    This is an obvious question but thought of asking anyway, as people would be coming in to ask the same. With Leopard coming in on the 26th October, 2007 would IRAF work in Leopard? Has it been tested by someone in the IRAF developing community? Or are you the prime developer of IRAF on Mac OS?

    Thanks!

    Oct 16th, 2007 at 5:43 pm   

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    Marcos Says

    I doubt it has been tested by anyone yet… but I would be very surprised if there were any major problems running on Leopard. The most likely problem is some kind of issues with the new xcode/compilers in trying to build external packages, etc. I’ll try to check all this out when I get Leopard going on my laptop. (I don’t have plans to put in on my work machine.)

    Oct 24th, 2007 at 11:51 am   

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    Rohit Says

    I just got an email from ITT stating that IDL 6.4 works perfectly on Intel Macs running Leopard. I have also tested the same. If someone has problems, then ITT is giving out patches. Please contact Rebecca Mashburn(rmashburn ‘at’ ittvis.com) for the patch.

    I tried to install Intel IRAF 2.13 Beta for MAC but the installer failed to install. It suggested that some of the files could not copied to the root directory. Maybe a new installer/compiler needs to be written for Leopard.

    Nov 7th, 2007 at 3:46 pm   

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    Nick Devereux Says

    Marcos,

    I have a binary for a custom IRAF package called GIM2D. How do I install this new IRAF package on my MAC?

    I’m running IRAF 2.14 and the operating system is MAC OS X 10.4.10

    Thanks in anticipation

    Nick

    Jan 23rd, 2008 at 9:54 pm   

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    Marcos Says

    Does GIM2D not describe how to install itself? Typically IRAF external packages go into /iraf/extern/. You usually need both the source and the binaries (which go in a bin.macintel directory) and then you have to edit extern.pkg to let IRAF know the package is there. But, not having heard of GIM2D before, I don’t know – you’d have to find its web site and see what their instructions are…

    Jan 27th, 2008 at 11:42 am   

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    Jeff Says

    I wanted to install pndr as an external package to iraf (pndr is a program that allows extraction of 1 D spectra using iraf.) xc must be used to compile the individual tasks in pndr. But all I get from xc is nonsense – if I type xc filename, it says no such command but ‘xc help’ does works. If I type ./xc filename, it gives ’syntex error’ How can I check the paths and why won’t xc.e work? (I have iraf, tables, stsdas all installed via your packages and of course, I am trying to compile in iraf.) Jeff

    Jan 28th, 2008 at 9:15 pm   

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    Marcos Says

    Does the pndr package not come with instructions on how to compile it? Usually it’s something like mkpkg update, as opposed to invoking xc. Does IRAF 2.14 even use xc anymore? I thought they moved to g77 or something. This is really a question best suited for the IRAF.net forums, they’ll know better than I, be sure to post the exact error messages and such.

    Jan 29th, 2008 at 3:38 pm   

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    Camilla Says

    hey marcos! i have some problems in installing STSDAS on my new mac. i did install TABLES with no problems, but at the beginning of the installation STSDAS fails. do you think it can be relatad to Leopard? thank you

    Feb 14th, 2008 at 7:08 am   

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    Marcos Says

    Hi Camilla. Could you tell me exactly what the error is? And look at the Installer log (as described on a recent post) and see what it’s complaining about? It could be a permissions issue…. I assume you’re using my installer.

    Feb 18th, 2008 at 10:55 am   

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    Camilla Says

    i’m sorry i can’t find the post you mean. anyway…lunching the STSDAS(…).pkg the installation starts: it asks me to agree for the licence and where to install, then it says that the installation cannot be completed because “installer can’t install some documents in /.”. i think you got the problem, can you help me fix it please? thank you very much

    Feb 19th, 2008 at 4:11 am   

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    serena Says

    Hi, I downloaded IRAF 2.14 installer for MACOS X Intel.pkg, but installation fails, because some of the files are to be written under /. Is there any other pkg file that I should download? Thanks!

    Feb 19th, 2008 at 2:21 pm   

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    serena Says

    OKay, I found a way to go around this problem. I created /Users/iraf/iraf directory, then symbolic linked it from root directory. Then I had to change permissions so that the same group users could have write permission as well. However, it still returned a “installation failure” message, because it couldn’t create “receipt”. This failure isn’t really failure, and I could manage to find a way to make it work following the installation instruction.

    Feb 19th, 2008 at 5:09 pm   

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    Marcos Says

    If the IRAF user is an admin and the permissions on / are set correctly than the installer can install on / without any issue. Run “repair permissions” in Disk utility if you’re having issues writing to /. Also, I added a link to this page on the story on how to check the installer log.

    Feb 22nd, 2008 at 5:50 pm   

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    Jason Says

    Hi, I’m trying to install iraf and when i run the package it doesn’t create a /iraf/iraf/unix folder. I have a feeling the installer is quitting early for some unknown reason. Am i overlooking something?

    Apr 1st, 2008 at 2:26 am   

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    Jason Says

    Apr 1 00:44:13 jason-dittmanns-computer : BomFatalError – cpio read error: bad file format

    Apr 1 00:44:13 jason-dittmanns-computer : Install failed: Some files for IRAF 2.14 Installer for MacOS X Intel may not have been written correctly.

    There’s the installer log by the way

    Apr 1st, 2008 at 2:46 am   

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    Jason Says

    Well, i redownloaded the install thing for the 10th time or so, but this tiem from a different network and it all worked out. Weird.

    HOWEVER

    i tried to install xgterm, but when i try to run it in the terminal with !xgterm i get “

    dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/ibXpm.4.dylib Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/xgterm Reason: image not found Trace/BPT trap

    Apr 1st, 2008 at 5:37 pm   

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    Kirsten Says

    I have installed mscred onto two different machines (both Macs) in hopes to use msctpeak. I’ve got all of my parameters set but when i run it i get a prompt for ‘fdcoords: ‘. What is this and why is it asking me for it when I’ve seen msctpeak run (with my same parameters) without it!?

    Apr 3rd, 2008 at 11:24 pm   

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    Willie Says

    I installed IRAF V2.13 installed on my iBook running Mac OS 10.4.11 thanks to your installers and instructions.

    If I want to upgrade to V2.14 do I just run the new installer or do I need to uninstall the old version first? How about the various packages? Do they need to be reinstalled? Sorry if I missed this in the docs somewhere.

    Willie

    Apr 6th, 2008 at 8:43 am   

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    Willie Says

    Went ahead and downloaded the new installer. Of course, in the instructions you answer my question. Followed the instructions and now have 2.14. Thanks.

    Willie

    Apr 6th, 2008 at 9:15 am   

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    Marcos Says

    Wow, sure were a lot of posts here in the last week. You’ll find it better to email me than than to post comments, at least in terms of response time, because I had to turn off new comment notification.

    @Kirsten – I’d ask that question at the iraf.net forums; it sounds like something with MSCRED (which I know little about) rather than with the installer process.

    @ Willie – There’s also a post somewhere on how to upgrade IRAF with the installers, I usually rename the old /iraf folder and such.

    @ Jason – Weird about the errors ,but I remind everyone to look at the Installer Log file to see what the problems are … that can help diagnosis. Though, now that the installer asks to authenticate, I’d think we’d have a lot fewer permission errors. Though, there maybe some issues with creating a file in /. Anyway, glad it worked eventually. I’m not sure about your xgterm woes. Which version did you download? Are you running Leopard or Tiger?

    Apr 6th, 2008 at 12:22 pm   

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    Quinton Goddard Says

    Just installed IRAF on my Macbook, all appears to be working but I cannot call up an xgterm. Get this error message.

    bash: xgterm: command not found

    All th path information appears to be set correctly!

    Any help is really appriciated this is taking me ages to sort out…

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 am   

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    Marcos Says

    @ Quinton – did you install xgterm? If you know it’s exactly path, can you try that? i.e. try typing /usr/local/bin/xgterm or /usr/bin/xgterm?

    Jun 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 pm   

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    José Says

    Bacan

    Oct 6th, 2008 at 3:51 pm   

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    Lorrie Says

    to all regarding the stsdas installation problem saying it can’t write files to /, I had the same problem. consulting the installer log, I found that my iraf admin didn’t have permission to write to the extern folder. I fixed the permission and it installed right away. (this is really late, but in case someone has the same problem down the road.)

    Mar 24th, 2009 at 2:52 pm   

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