installing IRAF

Guest wrote on Jul 13, 2009

Dear all,

I'm writting because I have problems with the IRAF installation. I could follow all the steps described in the install
guide succesfully. However, when I execute the cl comand the following
message arises:

"/iraf/iraf/bin.redhat/ecl.e: error while loading shared libraries:
libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory"

I didn't found the libtermcap.so.2 anywhere and I couldn't link it (my
system is the fedora core 10). Do you know how can I overcome this issue?

Thanks in advance

Josep-Maria

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jul 13, 2009

The termcap libs are included in the 'ncurses' package which you should install. Since there may be version number differences, perhaps the simplest thing is to simply get the statically linked binary at

http://iraf.net/ftp/pub/fitz/ecl.e

Download in binary mode, reset execute permissions and install in the $iraf/bin.redhat directory.

-Mike

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Gabriel wrote on Jul 13, 2009

Hi Jose,

You could try my guide to installing IRAF on Fedora. You can find it here:

http://gabriel-ip.blogspot.com/

It's pretty thorough.

Cheers!

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