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installing x11iraf in fedora

kwkchan wrote on Apr 10, 2010

Two question,

1. system app-defaults directory (none found):
i come up to this part while installing x11iraf v1.3.1 on fedora 12 and don't know what to input here can anyone give me some advice.

2. The next question it is going to ask me is about install CDL, so do I need to install CDL?

Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Apr 10, 2010


. system app-defaults directory (none found):
i come up to this part while installing x11iraf v1.3.1 on fedora 12 and don't know what to input here can anyone give me some advice.


The app-defaults file should normally be in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults, or perhaps /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/lib on Fedora. The XGterm defaults file is used mainly to specify the fonts and menus strings to be used, but xgterm will work fine without it.


2. The next question it is going to ask me is about install CDL, so do I need to install CDL?


Only if you intend to write applications to display images in XImtool/DS9, otherwise you won't need it.

More generally, you'll need to use the X11IRAF v2.0 release in order to use 24-bit image displays, v1.3.1 only supports 8-bit.[/quote]

Jacob Albretsen wrote on Apr 10, 2010

I just solved this one myself.

In CentOS 5.4, the location is: /usr/share/X11/app-defaults

To be sure in Fedora 12, type: locate app-defaults

Last post on Apr 10, 2010