Software Installation

Installation Instructions for School-related Software

Scripts for X-ray/Multiwavelength days:

You will need to download the .isisrc* file and unpack them in your home directly.

http://pulsar.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/black-hole/2ndschool/coursematerial/isisrc.tar.gz

This is a gzipped, tar file that contains the following files:

     ./.isisrc
     ./.isisrc_conf
     ./.isisrc_data
     ./.isisrc_fitfun
     ./.isisrc_flux
     ./.isisrc_plots

These files are meant to be unpacked in your main directory. In the main .isisrc file, there is a path variable that needs to be edited to point to your main directory, so that the other .isisrc_* files will be loaded as well. Important Note: These files contain on only Michael Nowak's own custom S-lang routines. You still need to download and install ISIS separately, following the software installation instructions!

Matrix of install info:

The point of this is to see who's done what on which system, so you can get ideas or also ask for help if you have a particular system. It's also for the reference of the teachers!

Name	Operating System	Software Succesfully Installed?	Software problems encountered, quick description of fix
Daniel Asmus	Fedora 11, 32bit, KDE	All	CASA problem "xvfb" errors. Turns out this was fixed in the final version linked now from the install pages. So if you run into this problem on linux,please make sure to use the updated links.
Amy Furniss	OS 10.6.3	All	Error when configuring Heasoft6.9, fails due to C compiler. Turns out that the .bashrc was set up as herself not as root, so the system was pointing to the wrong gcc/gfortran compilers. Once the root environment was set up correctly, it compiled.
Joel Fridriksson	Fedora 13	All	Got message about missing directory during Isis install "make check". Turns out that write-up was specific for 64 bit, said to configure with flag --with-slanglib=/usr/lib64, but since he's on 32 bit, the correct path is /usr/lib, and then it worked fine.
Sibasish Laha	Ubuntu 9.04 32bit	All
Benjamin Mück	Ubuntu 10.04 64bit	All
Holger Stiele	OS 10.6	All	Had some trouble making sure right compilers seen (very important!) and paths like $HEADAS known when compiling Isis. To be safe, starting a new xterm can make sure all environments you set are initialized correctly. But these are the first things to check when encountering errors.
Dmitry Svinkin	Ubuntu 10.04	All	Needed to install xvfb from Ubuntu repository for CASA, solved problem. Issue with AIPs on startup.
Montse Padilla	OS 10.6	All	All installed fine. Got "bus" error when trying to run Xspec, though!
Viktoriya Morozova	Ubuntu 10.04 32bit	All but AIPs	Trying to work it out locally, more info to come?
Jing Jin	Ubuntu 10.04	All	Link on page was broken for download. We have fixed! Also had xvfb error with CASA.
Salome Dibi	Mac OS10.6	All
Mahmoud Mohamed	Ubuntu 10.04 32bt	All	xvfb problem with CASA, will try above fixes. Works now!
Sara Buson	Ubuntu 10.04 32bt	All	Having a couple CASA issues, one is the xvfb issue everyone is getting, likely solved by installing from repository. The other is during a data loading test.
Petri Savolainen	Mac OS10.6.3	All
Alida Odendaal	Ubuntu 10.04 64bit	All	seem ok so far
Feng Gao	Fedora 8	All but CASA	working on xvfb issue
Alberto Cañellas i Pagès	Ubuntu 8.04	All
Jiri Svoboda	openSUSE 11.2, kde, 32 bit	All
Zhongli Zhang	Ubuntu, 64bit	All
Ivica Miscovicova	Ubuntu 8.04, 32bit	All
Valentina Fioretti	openSUSE 11.1	All
Samia Drappeau	Mac OS10.6	All
Peter Polko	Mac OS10.6	All
Sara Turriziani	Ubuntu 9.10 32bit	All	so far so good, apparently the s-lang that comes with Ubuntu is outdated compared to what Isis needs (2.2.2) so she had to download that separately. I've heard this from several students so be aware if you are using linux that you will need to do this!
Dusan Onic	Ubuntu 10.04	All	all ok except AIPs error on startup, working on a fix now, but may be /etc/services TV issue again (see link Victoria posted!). Indeed it was!
Alexis Coleiro	Mac OS10.6	All	Having trouble with Heasoft, maybe issue with compiler install. Solution: didn't wait until prior steps were finished! Now everything works :)
YiJung Yang	Mac Os10.5	All but AIPS	AIPS installed but having some problems getting output on terminal
Victoria Grinberg	Mac OS10.6.4	All	"Shared memory id failure: Invalid Argument" message when running the AIPS test, no TV visible. Solution for the problem can be found under: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips/aipsmgr/
Georges Younis	Ubuntu 8.04	All
Breanna Binder	Mac OS10.6	All
Tao Chen	Mac OS10.5.8	All	Had an error related to an undefined DATA area in AIPs. Solution: reinstall and then in screen 7 replace the default data area ($AIPS_ROOT/DATA/LOCALHOST) to the area he defined
David Cseh	Mac OS10.6.4	In progress	Having some compiler problems with Heasoft, working on it
Victoria Heard	Mac OS10.6	All	May even have found workaround for compiler issue!
Sheetal Saxena	Mac OS10.5	All	so far so good
Elise Egron	Ubuntu 8.04 32 bit	In progress	Working on a few AIPs related issues
Tyrone Woods	?	In progress
Alicja Wierzcholska	Arch Linux 64bit	All

Installation Instructions for School-related Software

For Debian linux

For Fedora linux

For Ubuntu linux

For Mac OS10.5/10.6

Scripts for X-ray/Multiwavelength days:

Matrix of install info: