[daip] AIPS binary installion: No MSGSERV and TEKSERV

[Poonam Chandra]

Dear AIPS HelpDesk,
	I did install the binary version of AIPS and I could install
without problem. However, when I start AIPS, TV comes properly but TEKSRV
and MSGSRV shows up for a fraction of a second and then disappear. I don't
get any error message too. This is what I get:
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?XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on localhost
TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain
XASERVERS: Start XAS on localhost, DISPLAY :0
XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!!
XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
XAS: Using screen width height 1270 700, max grey level 255
XASERVERS: Start graphics server TEKSRV on localhost, DISPLAY :0
XASERVERS: Start message server MSGSRV on localhost, DISPLAY :0
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I was reading AIPS Manager FAQ and I realised that this is a common
problem in binary installation. However, I have proper entries in
/etc/services to give port numbers etc. Can you please help me?
Regards and Happy New Year,
Poonam

 Poonam Chandra
Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow
Astronomy Building
University of Virginia
530 McCormick Road
Charlottesville, VA 22904

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Poonam Chandra writes:
>  > Dear AIPS Helpdesk,
>  >    I have a Dell Inspiron 710m laptop with Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy eft installed
>  > on it. I am trying to install 31Dec07 version of AIPS. I tried to
>  > install with GCC version 3.4.4 as well as default gcc 4.1.2 of the
>  > Ubuntu 6.10. In both the cases, it gives following error in INSTEP 4. I
>  > have no clue why I am getting this error. I would really appreciate if
>  > you could help me.
>
>      I have no idea whether the 4.1.2 compiler will work for aips - it
> has not been tested and several of the 4.x.x compilers have failed to
> compile aips, yet say run it correctly.
>
>      Second comment - why compile aips locally?  Are you planning to
> write aips tasks yourself?  If not, the binary installation gets you
> load modules that run significantly faster than those from the GNU
> compiler.  To install the binary version go to your aips_root area and
> enter       perl install.pl -n
> You may have to edit the ~/.AIPSRC file to get it to stop complainingg
> about the change to network (binary) install.
>
>      The error below arises from a simple bit of code that was not
> installed when your OS was
>
>  > /home/soni/Softwares/AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/PREP/SETTVP.EXE
>  > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
>
> Install the RPM for ncurses-devel and this library will be present.
>
> Eric Greisen
>
>
>