MacSingularity Archive » installers

IRAF January 2008 Critical Update now on Download page

admin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:41:29 +0000

So, I dropped the ball – the January 14 2008 critical update to IRAF? I never bothered to incorporated the updated binaries to my .pkg installer. I have done so now, and the installer for IRAF 2.14 on the download page contains the updated binaries.

This is also the first time I’ve used Packagemaker in xcode 3.0, so … I now am requiring authorization to install and I think I have it set up so that the iraf user will be given ownership, but I’m not 100% sure that’s going to work. Let me know if there are any problems.

Oh, and as an aside – did you see the iPhone version of IRAF?. Quite amusing.

Leopard X11 Page at MacOSForge

admin — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:35:42 +0000

So, those of you who are running Leopard’s X11 may be interested to check out the download page at MacOS Forge which contains all the new changes made to Xquartz/X11, etc. since the release that made it into Leopard. They even have nice .pkg installers for people who want to install the latest versions before they become available in OS X Software Update.

Grab the 2.1.0.1 release and see the changes that have been made over the version in Leopard.

IRAF 2.14 Available – Installers forthcoming here.

admin — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:35:24 +0000

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.

Check OS X's Installer Log for installation issues

admin — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:58:19 +0000

A common problem with the IRAF installers is that / is sometimes not writeable by the admin group, and thus the “iraf user” can’t write files to the root of the hard drive. To see what goes wrong with the installer, please check the installer log. You can see a screenshot here.

If it’s something about permissions, making / writeable by the admin will probably fix it (assuming IRAF is an admin user, as I suggest)

   sudo chmod g+w /