Re: Tools CD and rpm's

[obs681@telusplanet.net]

Quoting John McKendry <jmckendry@attbi.com>:

> > 
>  I'll raise my hand for this. I've installed the previous version of IRAF
> about half a dozen times and have most of the gotchas figured out, I have
> a new Mandrake system where I was planning to install it again, it has a
> CD burner, etc. Never made an RPM, but how hard can it be?
> 
>  I will get busy downloading the distribution files this evening. As I
> recall, that can take quite a while.
> 
> John
> 
> 

I would be very appreciative of a compilation CD, but even more, of a recipe 
about how to avoid the "gotchas" in getting IRAF up on my Linux system (SuSE 
7.2, but have lot's of machines and could use a different distro if that 
helps).  I use Starlink ("the UK's IRAF" which comes with a very nice CD + 
automatic installation process), but would like to become a bit more mainstream 
and use IRAF.

Gary Billings