OpenSuSE and IRAF V2.14

al374 wrote on Apr 08, 2008

I recently installed OpenSuSE, and I'm currently running into problems with following the installation guide given with IRAF V2.14 download.

Partly this is because i'm running a bash instead of a c-shell.

Does anyone have any documentation, advice, or information that can assist me? Preferably a guide, I am a beginner. Thanks for your help.

cattarin@seattleu.edu

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Apr 08, 2008

The C-shell is required for running IRAF anyway (e.g. the 'cl' and 'mkiraf' commands use csh). If it isn't your default shell you can just type 'csh' to start one and then the commands in the installation guide ( http://iraf.net/ftp/iraf/v214/pciraf.ps.gz ) can be followed. The last two pages of the installation guide have complete examples of the install process.

For OpenSuse you'll want to be sure to use the LNUX architecture. When following the install commands, use 'linux' where you see 'redhat' (e.g. when setting IRAFARCH, creating bin directories, etc).

Cheers,
-Mike

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al374 wrote on Apr 08, 2008

Thank you for your help, I'm currently running into the problem with openSuSE, for some reason I can't open a c-shell with 'csh', the command isn't recognized. So I'm asking around on their forums.

If you know anything that might help me out that'd be great, otherwise, thanks for your help.

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Apr 08, 2008

If you get a "command not found" message then it may not be installed and you need to install it from the SuSE distribution (it may be in a package called 'tcsh' which is equivalent). Normally the command is in /bin/csh or /bin/tcsh.

-Mike

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