IRAF Setup on Ubuntu/Debian

= IRAF Setup on Ubuntu/Debian =

This page describes how to setup IRAF on a 32-bit Ubuntu/Debian machine.
Installation of X11IRAF and DS9 are also included, plus installation of Tables
and STSDAS are shown as an example of adding external packages.

It will be easiest if you just copy-paste the instructions one by one.
Please be sure to read and implement the instructions in [[brackets]] as well.

For 64-bit installation, see - http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~khan/iraf/iraf_step_by_step_installation_64bit 
Please send questions or comments to:
khan@astronomy.ohio-state.edu

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sudo apt-get install tcsh

sudo apt-get install libxss1

wget http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~khan/iraf/ldso_1.9.11-15_i386.deb 
sudo dpkg -i ldso_1.9.11-15_i386.deb

wget http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~khan/iraf/libc5_5.4.46-15_i386.deb 
sudo dpkg -i libc5_5.4.46-15_i386.deb

wget http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~khan/iraf/termcap-compat_1.2.3_i386.deb 
sudo dpkg -i termcap-compat_1.2.3_i386.deb

[[Use System>Administration>Users and Groups to create an account with username
"iraf", real name "IRAF Maintenance", home directory "/iraf/iraf/local", shell
"/bin/tcsh", and a secure password. Be sure to grant admin privilege to this
account. For sudo commands here on, use this password. An easy way to avoid
confusion is to assign the same password to this account as to your other /
sys-admin account.]]

sudo chown -R iraf:iraf /iraf

su iraf

mkdir /iraf/irafbin

mkdir /iraf/irafbin/bin.linux

mkdir /iraf/irafbin/noao.bin.linux

mkdir /iraf/x11iraf

mkdir /iraf/extern

cd /iraf/iraf

wget http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/ftp/iraf/v214/PCIX/as.pcix.gen.gz 
tar -zxf as.pcix.gen.gz

rm as.pcix.gen.gz

cd /iraf/iraf/unix/bin.redhat/

mv * ../bin.linux/

cd /iraf/irafbin/bin.linux

wget http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/ftp/iraf/v214/PCIX/ib.rhux.x86.gz 
tar -zxpf ib.rhux.x86.gz

rm ib.rhux.x86.gz

cd /iraf/irafbin/noao.bin.linux

wget http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/ftp/iraf/v214/PCIX/nb.rhux.x86.gz 
tar -zxpf nb.rhux.x86.gz

rm nb.rhux.x86.gz

setenv iraf /iraf/iraf/

cd $iraf/unix/hlib

source irafuser.csh

[[Choose default paths as will be shown in on-screen prompt parentheses.
Type "y" only where "yes" returns "huh?".]]

sudo ./install  // 此处应改为 “./install”
**剩下的就是安装了，进入安装之后就是一路回车了，默认的设置对大多数人来说是不需要更改的，不过如果你要仔细的看看都有哪些步骤的话也是没问题的，
但是选的时候一定是输入”y”和”n”，你如果输入”yes”"no”的话，IRAF会返回”huh?”………期间有一步是网络的检查，如果不行的话也不要紧，
安装最后会提示你IRAF已经成功的安装。

sudo apt-get install libncurses5

cd /iraf/x11iraf/

wget http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/ftp/iraf/x11iraf/x11iraf-v2.0BETA-bin.redhat.tar.gz 
tar -zxf x11iraf-v2.0BETA-bin.redhat.tar.gz

mv lib.redhat lib.linux

mv bin.redhat bin.linux

sudo ./install

rm x11iraf-v2.0BETA-bin.redhat.tar.gz

wget http://hea-www.harvard.edu/saord/ds9/archive/linux/ds9.linux.6.2.tar.gz 
tar -zxf ds9.linux.6.2.tar.gz

rm ds9.linux.6.2.tar.gz

sudo mv ds9 /usr/local/bin/

exit

cd

wget http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~khan/iraf/iraf 
sudo chmod u=rwx iraf

mkdir ~/IRAF

cd ~/IRAF

mkiraf

[[Select "xgterm" as your IRAF shell when prompted.]]

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The command ./iraf will now launch a complete IRAF session containing DS9,
xgterm and ecl, based in ~/IRAF. Alternately, start "xgterm' (typing xgterm),
cd into the directory where you did "mkiraf", and type "ecl" for enhanced IRAF,
"cl" for regular IRAF, and "ds9" for standalone DS9 launch.

Repeat the last 5 steps for each user as needed.

The following steps show how to add external packages. This example install
Tables and STSDAS. If you don't need extra packages, then you are done already.

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su iraf

cd /iraf/extern/

mkdir tables stsdas

cd /iraf/extern/tables/

wget http://stsdas.stsci.edu/download/tables_3.12/tables3.12.tar.gz 
tar -zxf tables3.12.tar.gz

rm tables3.12.tar.gz

cd bin.linux/

wget http://stsdas.stsci.edu/download/tables_3.12/tables3.12.bin.redhat.tar.gz 
tar -zxf tables3.12.bin.redhat.tar.gz

rm tables3.12.bin.redhat.tar.gz

cd /iraf/extern/stsdas

wget http://stsdas.stsci.edu/download/stsdas_3.12/stsdas3.12.tar.gz 
tar -zxf stsdas3.12.tar.gz

rm stsdas3.12.tar.gz

cd bin.linux

wget http://stsdas.stsci.edu/download/stsdas_3.12/stsdas3.12.bin.redhat.tar.gz 
tar -zxf stsdas3.12.bin.redhat.tar.gz

rm stsdas3.12.bin.redhat.tar.gz

cd /iraf/extern/stsdas

python python/compileall.py ./python

python python/compileall.py ./python/*

nano /iraf/iraf/unix/hlib/extern.pkg

[[Now, edit this file so that it look like what follows. Do not delete any
existing lines, just add the new lines that has "stsdas" or "tables" or
"apropos" in them.]]

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reset noao = iraf$noao/

task noao.pkg = noao$noao.cl

reset tables = /iraf/extern/tables/
task tables.pkg = tables$tables.cl

reset stsdas = /iraf/extern/stsdas/
task stsdas.pkg = stsdas$stsdas.cl
task apropos = stsdas$apropos.cl

reset helpdb = "lib$helpdb.mip \
,noao$lib/helpdb.mip \
,tables$lib/helpdb.mip \
,stsdas$lib/helpdb.mip \
"

keep

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[[Use ctrl-x to exit, answer "y" to save file, press enter to confirm.]

exit

cd

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Now, tables and stsdas are available for use inside iraf. Some of the other
commonly used packages are ared, mscred, color, ctio, fitsutil, gemini, gmisc,
nmisc, rvsao and xdimsum. Google will help you find the packages and you can set
them up (similar to the example given here for stsdas/tables) following the
instructions of the host pages.

The following are some notes on alternate way of doing things.

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1. You can intall iraf without actually creating a separate user called "iraf".
To do this, simply skip the [[ instructions ]] on how to create a new user, and
*skip* these two lines -

sudo chown -R iraf:iraf /iraf
su iraf

Instead, precede *all* your commands with "sudo".

2. Instead of installing the *.deb package of termcap-compat, you can install
the rpm package. To do this, *skip* these lines -

wget http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~khan/iraf/ldso_1.9.11-15_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture ldso_1.9.11-15_i386.deb
wget http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~khan/iraf/libc5_5.4.46-15_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture libc5_5.4.46-15_i386.deb
wget http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~khan/iraf/termcap-compat_1.2.3_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture termcap-compat_1.2.3_i386.deb

Instead, do these -

sudo apt-get install rpm
wget http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~khan/iraf/libtermcap-2.0.8-47.x86.rpm sudo rpm -iv --force-debian --nodeps  libtermcap-2.0.8-47.x86.rpm
rm libtermcap-2.0.8-47.x86.rpm

3. Here are some other places to get packages from, or if you want to use x11iraf-1.5
wget http://iraf.net/ftp/iraf/v214/PCIX/as.pcix.gen.gz wget http://iraf.net/ftp/iraf/v214/PCIX/ib.rhux.x86.gz wget http://iraf.net/ftp/iraf/v214/PCIX/nb.rhux.x86.gz wget http://iraf.net/ftp/iraf/x11iraf/x11iraf-v1.5DEV-bin.redhat.tar.gz 
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