[daip] Installing aips on a mac

[Eric Greisen]

On 06/29/2015 12:31 PM, Victor Migenes wrote:
>
> Eric,
>
> As always, I hope you are doing well!
>
> Here I am harassing you again .....
>
> Once again, concerning the Mac installation.
> We created a directory/Folder called Aips, we copied the
> install.pl, made it executable and ran perl.  We answered all
> the questions and completed the procedure. It seemed to all
> run fine! Then we edited the /etc/services file. We ran the
> LOGIN.SH and when we type aips we get:
>
> MelissallumsMBP:Desktop Melissa$ cd /Users/Melissa/Desktop/Aips
>
> MelissallumsMBP:Aips Melissa$ aips
>
> -bash: aips: command not found
>
> MelissallumsMBP:Aips Melissa$ sh LOGIN.SH
>
> MelissallumsMBP:Aips Melissa$ aips
>
> -bash: aips: command not found
>
> The same happens if I try to run the START_AIPS file.
> What are we doing wrong now? Once again, I appreciate your
> help!

The same cannot happen if you cd $AIPS_ROOT and do ./START_AIPS

Something else can go wrong but not that.

As to the "aips command not found"  do an echo $PATH and also
try  to find out what $SYSLOCAL is (you may have to do a $CDTST after 
the ". LOGIN.SH" (not sh LOGIN.SH)

Eric