[daip] AIPS installation error

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Wed Jun 25 23:49:34 EDT 2008


Alexis Knaub wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 
> I have been trying to install AIPS on my computer for the past few days 
> and keep receiving a message that reads "Illegal division by zero at 
> install.pl line 2840." Here are the lines that precede it:
> 
> sent 7394 bytes  received 2484468 bytes  453065.82 bytes/sec
> total size is 7508753  speedup is 3.01
> AipsWiz:  =====> Configuring your AIPS_ROOT area...
> AipsWiz:  =====> Running 31DEC08/SYSTEM/UNIX/AIPSROOT.DEFINE 
> /Users/Aleksie/aips
> AipsWiz:  =====> changing LOGIN.SH to LAPTOP=YES
> AipsWiz:  =====> changing LOGIN.CSH to LAPTOP=YES
> AipsWiz:         -- Done.
> AipsWiz:  =====> Setting up MACINT-specific areas and SYSLOCAL...
> AipsWiz: Creating directory /Users/Aleksie/aips/31DEC08/MACINT/LIBR
> AipsWiz: Creating directory /Users/Aleksie/aips/31DEC08/MACINT/LOAD
> AipsWiz: Creating directory /Users/Aleksie/aips/31DEC08/MACINT/MEMORY
> AipsWiz: Creating directory /Users/Aleksie/aips/31DEC08/MACINT/PREP
> AipsWiz: Creating directory /Users/Aleksie/aips/31DEC08/MACINT/SYSTEM
> AipsWiz: Creating directory /Users/Aleksie/aips/31DEC08/MACINT/SYSTEM/DPU
> AipsWiz: Creating directory /Users/Aleksie/aips/31DEC08/MACINT/TEMPLATE
> AipsWiz:  =====> Configuring AIPS for your printers...
> AipsWiz:         Text printing set up for 'A' size paper
> AipsWiz:         -- done
> AipsWiz:  =====> Configure AIPS data areas ...
> Illegal division by zero at install.pl line 2840.
>

In line 2840 the $d/SPACE should be inside " marks.  You can edit 
install.pl or fetch a new one tomorrow.

Sorry - I just did what a systems guy told me to do...

Eric Greisen




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