[daip] 31DEC12 Installation on Linux

[Eric Greisen]

Brendan Reardon wrote:
> Eric Greisen -
> 
> Thank you very much for your speedy reply, I sincerely appreciate it. I 
> have been trying to get AIPS up and running for some time now. 
> Using "perl install.pl <http://install.pl> -n" was my original approach 
> but I was unable to build, so I ended up finding a tarball - which 
> brought me to compiling, as you pointed out. 
> 
> I removed all the files from the directory and began anew and after lots 
> of troubleshooting was able to build for the most part. Though I ran 
> into some permission issues and am stuck once again. 
> 
> The error which keeps me stuck now is the permissions on 
> AIPSROOT.DEFINE, I have been troubleshooting for quite a while and am 
> not sure what permissions need to be set. Do you have any suggestions? 
> Below is the readings from terminal 

>     31DEC12/SYSTEM/UNIX/AIPSROOT.DEFINE: 115: cannot create
>     AIPSPATH.SH.tmp: Permission denied

>     AipsWiz: Error: AIPSROOT.DEFINE is not happy.  Something went wrong.
>     AipsWiz: Error: Its function is to set the value of AIPS_ROOT in several
>     AipsWiz: Error: shell scripts in the /soft/aips/ directory.
>     AipsWiz: Error: Maybe something was write-protected or not owned by you?
>     AipsWiz: Error: Please investigate, fix it if possible and re-try.
>     AipsWiz: Install Wizard stopping.  Current settings saved in ~/.AIPSRC
>     AipsWiz: Abandoning ship!  Goodbye.

I am totally perplexed by this - the code being executed is ancient and 
never fails.  The advice above is crucial.  Are you attempting to 
install in an area over which you do not have full write privilege?  Are 
you attempting to install as root?  Neither will work.

cd /soft
ls -l

what is the ownership of the aips directory?

cd /soft/aips

ls -l

what is the ownership and priviliges over all files there.

perl install -n should take less than an hour and work every time.  You 
are doing something odd to experience all the trouble you are having but 
it is hard at this distance to figure out what.  Have you told it to 
install with group write privilege?  I usually do that.

Eric Greisen