[daip] Re: Slime in Linux ?

[Eric Greisen]

Subhashis Roy writes:

 > I checked in the aips home page that there is Solaris and Digital Unix binary
 > of Slime.
 > 
 > Do Slime works under Linux ?
 > 
 > Here, SUN machines are not used for the last several years, and I wanted to use
 > Slime on one of my data set in a Linux machine.
 > (here, all the machines are running Linux).
 > 

Slime was never ported to Linux - it uses libraries in XWindows that
are not commonly present in Linux (I am forgetting the name).  Slime
was a product of Chris Flatters who no longer works for NRAO.  We have
retained his binary files but I do not even know if they would work on
the Solaris or Dec systems for which they were once built.  Slime was
never a popular product and so we did not think there was reason to
invest effort as Chris was leaving.  There might be source code in
those binary downloads - if there isn't then I dod not know ehere the
code might be - in which case a determined individual might be able to
do a Linux port.

Eric Greisen