daophot

Guest wrote on Feb 22, 2006

Hello,

I have installed the latest version of IRAF in SUSE.
While in noao->digiphot, daophot gives me this error message:
di> daophot
ERROR on line 16: task `tables' has no param file
daophot ()

and the same happens when I type ptools:
di> ptools
ERROR on line 17: task `tables' has no param file
ptools ()

Apphot and photcal work just fine.

Any ideas on what might be the problem?

Thank you for the help,

Dana Schwarz

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Feb 22, 2006

The TABLES package is required for some parts of DAOPHOT. Either this isn't installed or it is installed improperly (e.g. the path in hlib$extern.pkg is wrong or missing a trailing '/' or somesuch). You can get TABLES from the STScI archive in ftp://ftp.stsci.edu/pub/software/stsdas. I don't believe they have a SuSE set of binaries so you'll need to compile locally, chances are that installing the pre-built redhat binaries in tables$bin.suse will work just as well.

Cheers,
-Mike

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