Installing LDSS3 IRAF tools

Summary

Installing the LDSS3 IRAF Tools.

Environment

  • macOS
  • RHEL
  • Astronomy
  • iraf27 environment configured for Astronomy department

Directions

This article assumes you have the iraf27 environment installed in /usr/local/anaconda/envs/iraf27.

  1. Download the LDSS3 tools.
  2. Un-tar the downloaded file by double clicking it.
  3. Copy the resulting ldss3_tools_dist folder to /usr/local/anaconda/envs/iraf27/iraf_extern/.
  4. Edit the package file: sudo vim /usr/local/anaconda/envs/iraf27/extern.pkg
  5. Add the following lines: 
    # ftp://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/v216/REPO
reset ldss3 = /usr/local/anaconda/envs/iraf27/iraf_extern/ldss3_tools_dist/
task ldss3.pkg = ldss3$ldss3.cl
reset helpdb= ( envget("helpdb") + ",ldss3$lib/helpdb.mip" )
reset aproposdb= ( envget("ldss3") + ",ldss3$lib/apropos.db" )

 

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