[daip] forwarded message from Eric Greisen

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From: Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu>
To: Tracy Chen <xchen at astro.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: [daip] AIPS uninstalling question
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:47:19 -0700

Tracy Chen writes:

 > My name is Xi Chen, and I am a graduate student in UCLA. I installed  
 > AIPS on my mac computer 2 months ago and it works fine. But  
 > unfortuntely I crashed my computer yesterday. And after I backed it  
 > up today. The AIPS does not work any more and the GCC compilers  
 > either. So I am thinking of uninstalling AIPS from my computer and  
 > reinstall it. Hope that'll make it work. But I could not find any  
 > instructions on how to uninstall it from MAC. So could you give me  
 > some advices on how to do it? Thanks a lot!

If you cd to the $AIPS_ROOT area and do an rm -rf you will completely
remove anything to do with aips other than changes to the system
services.  Of course this might also delete all your data.

Usually people just recompile.  Normally I would assume on a Mac that
you do a binary install - in which case the gcc compiler is of no
interest.  It would depend on what is not working whether a full
installation is worth the trouble.

Eric Greisen
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