Old Asgard Install Log

June 5-6th 2007 Installed Fedora core 6 -- all default options, except add the 'software development' package. Added MRO user. Lots of updates on first login (of course).

June 8th 2007 lots of updates for real this time. The first time actually stopped after an error on 'pidgin'. This time around I noticed that and deselected 'pidgin'. After reboot 'pidgin' installed just fine.

installed fedorafaq.org's yum configuration. rpm -Uvh http://www.fedorafaq.org/yum http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm

June 11th 2007 installed emacs ('21.4.17.3.fc6.i386.rpm') using 'Add/Remove Software' on fedora menu.

June 12th 2007 found out that a flashing power light means the computer is suspended and can only be woken by pressing the power button--it stops you from logging in remotely. Not sure we want that.

Scisoft! As root, created /etc/yum.repos.d/scisoft.repo:

[scisoft] name=Scisoft baseurl=ftp://ftp.eso.org/scisoft/scisoft7/linux/fedora6/yum-repo gpgcheck=0

then run:

yum clean all yum install scisoft-\* (after much downloading of headers) press 'Y'

Finished! Added . /scisoft/bin/setup.bash to .bashrc (and 'set autolist') Created ~/bin since it seems to be in the path anyway.

IRAF: login.cl: changed imdir=HDR$, stdimage=imt1100, imtype=fits

pyraf and python: pylab and numpy didn't work at first, they threw an error while trying to load a shared library, '_tkinter.so' for pylab and pyraf. The error was "Error: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied"

This seems to be SELinux halting the process. Turning off SELinux fixes the problem. Another way might be to copy this string:

chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /scisoft/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so

mp3s: yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly -- but the soundcard doesn't work. Weird, it worked in the initial installation.

June 21 2007:

downloaded idl into /scisoft/share/idl/ -- let it make some symbolic links, took defaults for web server directories (?!), and said to DICOM and other network services. Setup license file, and it seems to work! Scisoft even setup the environment for me. =)

June 22: mounting shares manually:

mount -t cifs "//popeye.mro.cwu.edu/My Documents" /mnt/popeye/ mount -t nfs chivens.mro.cwu.edu:/var/www/html/logfiles /mnt/gtcc/

June 24th: mounting shares automatically by putting the following two lines in /etc/fstab:

chivens.mro.cwu.edu:/var/www/html/logfiles /mnt/gtcc/ nfs auto,ro 0 0  //popeye.mro.cwu.edu/My\040Documents /mnt/popeye/ cifs auto,ro,username=mro,password=mrouser 0 0

test by /etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs stop/start

June 26th: Made IRAF Instrument Translation Files.

In /scisoft/share/iraf/iraf/noao/imred/ccdred/ccddb/kpno/ created mro.dat:

subset       filter bias         zero object       object flat         flat

And added 'mro' and a short description to the file instruments.men.

Also added MRO to the observatory database in /scisoft/share/iraf/iraf/noao/lib/obsdb.dat

observatory = "mro"       name = "Manastash Ridge Observatory"       longitude = 120:43.668       latitude = 46:57.168       altitude = 1198       timezone = 8

July 11th: Added the fieldphot package to the iraf directory; created the fieldphot folder in the iraf/ directory and moved there fieldphot.cl mklight.cl mklight.phelp findandedit.cl findandedit.phelp multimatch.cl multimatch.phelp multiphot.cl params.pl runimstat.cl runmatch.cl runphot.cl sort.pl created the match/ folder in (I think) the fieldphot/ directory and un-tar match-0.8. Installed match-0.8; cd match-0.8 ./configure make

Checked the match instalation make check

edit fieldphot.cl to point at the files in the fieldphot directory. Edit runmatch.cl to point at the match program in fieldphot/match/match-0.8/

Created a loginuser.cl in iraf/ to point at fieldphot.cl in iraf/fieldphot/