[daip] Re: Now installing AIPS on G5

[Eric Greisen]

Glenn Morrison writes:
 > Hi Eric,
 > 
 > I get the following error when I try to install (run install.pl) the  
 > binaries on my new G5.  Ideas?
 > 
 > -Thanks
 > 
 > --Glenn
 > 
 > AipsWiz: ===> AIPS Root area:
 > 
 > AipsWiz: Unpacking the 'tarball' 31DEC05.tar.gz
 > AipsWiz: in the /usr/local/AIPS directory
 > AipsWiz: with command: tar zxvfU 31DEC05.tar.gz
 > AipsWiz: This may generate some errors if you are overwriting, but
 > AipsWiz: these ('Cannot unlink: directory not empty') are benign.
 > AipsWiz: (printing a dot every 100 files for your amusement...
 > tar (child): 31DEC05.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
 > tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
 > tar: Child returned status 2
 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
 > 
 > AipsWiz: OOPS.  Zero files?  Not very useful, I'd say.
 > AipsWiz: The unpacking apparently did not work.  Perhaps you have
 > AipsWiz: an older version of GNU tar, or your system's native tar
 > AipsWiz: did not like the options I used:
 > 
 >          tar zxvfU 31DEC05.tar.gz
 > 
 > 
 > AipsWiz: Please try to unpack it yourself and then restart me.
 > AipsWiz: If 1000s of file names came out, tar worked but fooled me.
 > AipsWiz: Restart me and I should be able to go on.
 > 

You did not say 
          
          perl install -n

you left off the -n so it tried to read a tar file which you
apparently do not have (and should not).

Eric Greisen