Problem with installing ared

A. Springmann wrote on Jun 19, 2009

Hi everyone,

I'd like to run quadproc for reducing data from the 0.9-meter at Cerro Tololo, and to do that I need to install ared. I'm working on an Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) box and I'm following the instructions here:
http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/ftp/iraf/extern/ared.readme

At step 5, it says to type:

	
	cl> ared				# load the package
	ar> cd aredbin$				# go to the bin directory
	ar> copy noaobin$x_ccdred.e .		# copy executable

However, I get this error:

ared> 
	cd aredbin$
ERROR: Cannot change directory to `aredbin$'
     called as: `cd (aredbin$)'

Any suggestions as to what's going wrong? Is there a better way to get quadproc? Thanks so much!

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jun 19, 2009

ARED is a fairly old package and we're recommending you use the QUADRED package (based on ARED) that's already part of the core system. For the error message you mention, the usual cause is that the 'ared' variable isn't defined in the hlib$extern.pkg file (or isn't defined with a trailing '/', or isn't defined before the finall 'keep' statement).

-Mike

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