AIPS

Requirements:

• Unix Workstation: MacIntosh OS X (Darwin) either PPC or Intel cpu, Linux/Intel, or Solaris/Sparc Ultra; 1 Gigabyte memory, 1 Gigabyte disk space (not counting your data). Binary installations which are now offered for MACPPX OS/X systems using NRAO's IBM xlf compilers for PPC-based systems or Intel's ifort for Intel-based systems, for SUL systems using SUN's SUNWspro compilers, and for LINUX systems using Intel's ifort compiler under RedHat.

• Internet (ftp) access;

• Perl version 5 (comes with most Linux systems);

• The rsync utility is now used and the Secure Shell client and cvs utility are not required.

Preliminaries for your installation:

1. • For binary installations, get the Install Wizard file, but do not fetch the 31DEC22.tar.gz file. Remember the date/time (Greenwich) on which you started install.pl.

   • Read the On-Line Wizard Guide BEFORE PROCEEDING FURTHER! Also, use it as you proceed through the various screens presented by the wizard.

   • Place install.pl in the area that will be your $AIPS_ROOT (top-level AIPS directory).

   • If you have a previous installed version of AIPS:

     • Edit your $HOME/.AIPSRC file: change the CCOMOPT option to point at 31DEC22 and delete the DOWNLOADED and UNPACKED lines.

     • Use the same $AIPS_ROOT area for the new version

     • Just give a carriage-return (Enter) to the screens asking for information about hosts, disk areas, printers, tapes, tape hosts and TV services.

   • Make sure that the install.pl file is executable. Then, for binary installations,
     perl install.pl -n

Post-Install Steps:

1. • Edit $AIPS_ROOT files AIPSPATH.SH and AIPSPATH.CSH to select which version of AIPS, if you have more than one, corresponds to NEW and OLD.

   • Upgrade the $SYSLOCAL/UPDCONFIG file to match any improvements you made in any previous version of that file. Make sure that the e-mail addresses in the file are correct.

   • Make sure you Read the Midnight Job instructions before enabling the midnight job on your system. You may run the MNJ via a cron, but most users elect to run the do_daily.hostname file by hand at times of their choosing.

For details info, please check the website below:

http://www.aips.nrao.edu/install.shtml

Installation Steps (Youtube tutorial)

https://youtu.be/SdcYe_h3NDE